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- Sale 940
Live
| Chicago
Oct 20 | 11:00 AM EDT
Live
| Chicago
Sale 940
| Chicago
| Chicago
Estimate$1,000 – $2,000
Note:
The present lot is a copy of a painting housed in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille attributed to a follower of Hieronymous Bosch (Dutch, c. 1450-1516). Presumed to be based on a preparatory ink drawing by Bosch titled Singers in an Egg (in the collection of Kupterstichkabinett Berlin), the painting's original attribution to Bosch himself was debunked through a pictorial analysis of the music depicted in the painting, which is a composition by Franco-Flemish composer Thomas Crecquillon that dates to 1549.
The scene recalls thematic elements of The Ship of Fools, a German text written by Sebastian Brant in 1494 about the voyage of a group of dysfunctional characters, each representing a different form of madness. Bosch repeatedly incorporated this trope in his art, such as in his painting of the same title in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Corbin Horn
Vice President, Head of Department, European Furniture & Decorative Arts
