A new painting attributed to the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch – Le Figaro

Some art historians have argued Monday that identified the painting that was previously attributed to a pupil of the painter. It will be exhibited for the first time in February at the Noordbrabants Museum.

Some art historians have claimed Monday to have identified a new painting by Hieronymus Bosch after years of research at the 500 years of his death approaching next summer: painting, previously assigned to a student, was in the warehouse of an American museum

“This new award is a significant addition to the small body of work produced by Hieronymus Bosch”, announced researchers in a statement.

the results of the research were presented as the museum’s birthplace, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, is about to open a special exhibition of 20 paintings from the “painter of the devil.”

monsters feasting lost souls, demons torturing of twisted sinners pain, smiling skeletons waiting for the dead earned him the nickname and terrified for centuries.

the temptation of Saint Anthony , which represents the saint drinking at the water of a river, surrounded by little fantastic monsters, is an addition “small but significant” to the painter’s work, the researchers said.

“the saint is tried in his life, which is dedicated to God by the strange creatures that surround it, “explain the researchers. “Although the painting was heavily retouched and repainted during restoration in the twentieth century, the hand of Hieronymus Bosch is clearly recognizable.”

The carnival imagery of Hieronymus Bosch sounds like the credo of new bourgeois morality of his time, to which he subscribed. misfortune to rake, the lazy, the waster, the miser, the stunned, because it will go to hell

the canvas, painted between 1500 and 1510 has been stored for years at the Nelson-Atkins museum in Kansas City. She was previously assigned to a student of Hieronymus Bosch workshop.

But infrared techniques have revealed under the paint, “drawings that exactly match other found on signs of Hieronymus Bosch “.

the painting will be presented to the public for the first time at the exhibition” Visions of a genius, “which opens in February at the Noordbrabants Museum.

Hieronymus Bosch, whose real name Jheronimus Van Acken, was born in 1450 in a family of painters. He joined the family workshop before taking the name of his city to be easily found by wealthy sponsors.

Death in August 1516 and was buried in the cathedral of the city, including the demonic gargoyles have inspired many of his creatures.