Hieronymus Bosch

Netherlandish, c. 1450 - 1516

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Dutch painter (c. 1450–1516)

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A naked man with ghostly white skin sits upright in a canopied bed set in a narrow room in this tall, vertical painting. Wearing a black cap, he looks to our left in profile toward a skeleton who comes through a door along the left edge of the composition. The man gestures at the skeleton with one hand and, with the other, toward a bag of money held up by a small demon next to the bed to our left. The skeleton wears a white shroud and holds an arrow. A winged angel kneels next to the man in the bed, one hand on the man’s shoulder and the other lifted to gesture at a crucifix hanging in the window over the door. A small devil on the canopy above looks down onto the bed. At the foot of the bed, a man wearing a green robe and headdress drops coins into a sack held by another demon. Three more demons crawl about and hide under the chest. Pieces of armor and weapons lie on the ground to the right in front of a stone ledge in the foreground. Two pieces of clothing drape over the ledge to our left.
Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser, c. 1485/1490, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.33

Death and the Miser

Hieronymus Bosch · c. 1485/1490 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.33

Bibliography

1937

  • Tolnay, Charles de. Hieronymus Bosch. Basel, 1937 (Engl. ed., with cat., New York, 1966).

1967

  • Gerlach, P. "Jeronimus van Aken alias Bosch en de Onze Lieve Vrouwe-Broederschap." Jheronimus Bosch. Bijdragen bij gelegenheid van de herdenkstentoonstelling te 's-Hertogenbosch. Eindhoven, 1967: 48-60.

1973

  • Gibson, Walter. Hieronymus Bosch. New York, 1973.

  • Snyder, James, ed. Bosch in Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1973.

1986

  • Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 15.