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Hieronymus Bosch (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1450 - 1516 Death and the Miser, c. 1485/1490 oil on panel overall: 93 x 31 cm (36 5/8 x 12 3/16 in.) framed: 105.9 x 43.5 x 5.4 cm (41 11/16 x 17 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1952.5.33 On View |
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Conservation Notes
The panel has been thinned to a veneer (maximum thickness 0.15) and laminated to another wooden panel, which has been cradled in turn; according to Eisler this was done around 1900.[1] The painting was restored in Belgium sometime prior to 1951.[2] The top left corner has been replaced with a triangular piece of veneer. Two vertical splits run the length of the painting, one 3.7 cm from the left edge and the other 4.0 cm from the right edge. There are small scratches and indentations throughout the support. The paint layer has been damaged. There are large areas of loss and subsequent restoration in the head and upper body of the figure of Death; in the approximate center of the painting, extending vertically through the lid of the chest, the left corner of the bed, and into the bed-curtain and arm of the demon; and at the right edge to the right of the corner of the bed and the standing figure in green. Moreover, extensive retouchings are scattered throughout the painting, including a narrow strip over the split at the right, extending downward from the bottom of the green robe into the low wall in the foreground. Some of the retouching has discolored.
[2] René Sneyers, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels,
letter of 8 July 1968 to Eisler stating that the picture was restored by Albert
Philippot without giving a date. Eisler 1977, 69, n. 2, cites de Tolnay 1966,
347, who says that the painting was cleaned and restored in 1937.
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