New Bosch discovery
February 9 2016
Picture: Bosch Research and Conservation Project
Hieronymous Bosch scholars have identified a previously lost painting by the artist - in the store rooms of a US museum. From The Guardian:
The painting lay in storage for years at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which acquired it in the 1930s.
Entitled The Temptation of St Anthony, it shows the saint gathering water in a jug as he leans on a staff in what was probably part of a larger panel, possibly a triptych.
Initially it had been believed to be the work of one of the many students who flocked to Bosch’s workshop in ’s-Hertogenbosch.
But an international team who carried out a five-year research project using sophisticated infrared technology determined that the painting was in fact by the master himself.
There will be a major Bosch exhibition soon in Holland, at the Noordbrabants Museum, opening 13th February. More here.
