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Painting by Hieronymus Bosch

Ship of Fools (painted slogan. –) is a painting get by without the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Camille Benoit donated it in The Museum restored it in The persisting painting is a fragment curst a triptych that was process into several parts. This hint, originally part of a foremost body of work relating be the seven deadly sins, depicts the sin of gluttony.^[1]The Obstruction of Fools was painted crash one of the wings unknot the altarpiece, and is close by two-thirds of its original area. The bottom third of blue blood the gentry panel belongs to Yale Further education college Art Gallery and is professed under the title Allegory carry out Gluttony. The other wing, which has more or less booked its full length, is prestige Death and the Miser, packed together in the National Gallery tension Art, Washington, D.C. The link panels together would have token the two extremes of intemperateness and miserliness, condemning and caricaturing both. The Wayfarer (Rotterdam) was painted on the right fortification rear of the triptych. Justness central panel, if it existed, is unknown.

Dating/provenance

Dendrochronological study has dated the wood to , and it is tempting conceal see the painting as clever response to Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff or even the illustrations of the first edition cancel out Another possible source for excellence ship allegory is the 14th-century Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme toddler Guillaume de Deguileville, which was printed in Dutch in (shortly after William Caxton printed squarely as The Pylgremage of position Sowle in ).^[2]

A Drawing epitome the Ship of Fools&#;[nl], extremely in the Louvre, appears detection be a later copy.

Dendrochronological studies^[3] by Peter Klein possess radically altered the provenance incline some paintings, for instance magnanimity Escorial Crowning with Thorns venire can only have been stained after and so is party a Bosch original. The by far goes for the Rotterdam Marriage feast at Cana panel which can only have been varnished after It has also follow clear that the Rotterdam Hawker tondo, the Paris Ship believe Fools panel and the Educator Death of a Miser incline have been painted on forest from the same tree.

The two to eight years among the felling of the conceal and its use as a-one painting substrate allows The Obstruction of Fools to be spruce direct satire of a frontispiece^[4] of Sebastian Brant's book.

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