Art historians have found a lost picture of Jerome Bosch

SKERTOCHENBOS. "Typical Bosch Monsters" helped establish the authorship of a forgotten painting, which has long been stored in the vaults of the US Museum.

Art historians were able to prove that the painting, which had lain for more than a dozen years in the storerooms of the museum, belongs to the brush of the Dutch artist Jerome Bosch, and not his student, as previously thought.

The discovery was announced in Schertenbosch, the hometown of the master, whose nightmare visions earned him the nickname "artist of the devil" on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. The painting was in the storehouse of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) in Kansas City, Missouri, since its acquisition in 1930. Called the Temptation of St Anthony, the painting may have been part of the triptych.

Initially, it was believed that the picture was painted by one of Bosch’s many students in his workshop in Schethenbosch. But the international team that studied the work as part of a large research project using modern methods identified the authorship of Bosch himself. The canvas, which was most likely painted between 1500 and 1510, underwent strong retouching, but “Bosch’s original manner does not raise doubts about its authorship,” the report said.

The painting was presented on February 1 at the Noordbrabants Museum in Bosch’s hometown. For an unprecedented exhibition, we managed to collect 20 of the 25 surviving paintings of the artist.

This is the second picture that has been identified as part of a large project to preserve Bosch’s heritage. At the end of last year, a team of scientists discovered the master’s drawing, called “The Infernal Landscape”. The exhibition is the culmination of the nine-year work of museum director Charles de Mooij to reunite Bosch’s unique artistic heritage in the place where he lived, worked and died.

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