The Wood Has Ears, The Field Has Eyes
Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
The Wood Has Ears, The Field Has Eyes
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 20.5 x 13 cm
An oversized owl stares into the viewer’s eyes from a dead tree. The large human ears in the woods and the eyes strewn across the field are clear signs that this image is of an entirely different sort than that of The Owl’s Nest (Cat. 36). Instead of a scene from nature, this allegorical drawing depicts an abstract concept. “The field has eyes and the woods have ears” is a proverb that Bosch drew as a rebus. A proverb dictionary from around the year 1500 provides the saying’s meaning: Humanity is under constant watch and should refrain from behavior that cannot bear the light of day. |  |
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties
Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk, Luuk Hoogstede, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 2016, pp. 498-505.
Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, pp. 54, 57, 105, 271.
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 170-177.
Matthijs Ilsink, Bosch en Bruegel als Bosch: kunst over kunst bij Pieter Bruegel (c. 1528–1569) en Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), Edam 2009 (Nijmeegse Kunsthistorische Studies 17), pp. 26, 34, 37, 38-64, 69.
Frédéric Elsig, Jheronimus Bosch. La question de la chronologie (Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance), Geneva 2004, pp. 110, 228.
Stephanie Buck, Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Turnhout 2001, pp. 197-206, 219-220, 226, 232.
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