1530-1550
Model Sheet with 'Witches'
Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
Model Sheet with 'Witches'
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 20.4 x 26.4 cm
In this drawing all of the figures-a collection of madwomen, perhaps witches-are side by side on the page. The drawing is a so-called model sheet, a collection of figures that the artist and his studio could refer to and use later in painted compositions. We are currently unaware of any Bosch painting in which these models appear. A number of elements from The Field Has Eyes, the Woods Have Ears (Cat. 37) reappear in this drawing. First of all, there is the owl sitting on the handle of the bread paddle ridden by the woman at top left. Beside her is a figure with a pot on its head that is very reminiscent of the verso of The Field Has Eyes, the Woods Have Ears. There can be no doubt that the same artist was at work here. |  |
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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. 510-511.
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 288-291.
Frédéric Elsig, Jheronimus Bosch. La question de la chronologie (Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance), Geneva 2004, pp. 50, 226.
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