Hieronymus Bosch drawings

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Many of Bosch's drawings have survived history. Many of them represent alternate incarnations of his paintings.

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[edit] Animal Studies

Type: Pen drawing
Size: 86 x 182 mm
Location: Staatliche Museen, Berlin

[edit] Beehive and Witches

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 192 x 270 mm
Location: Albertina, Vienna


[edit] Beggars

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 285 x 205 mm
Location: Albertina, Vienna

It is unknown whether this drawing is by Bosch or Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

[edit] Beggars and Cripples

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 264 x 198 mm
Location: Bibliotheque Royale Albert I, Brussels

Like the drawing Beggars, it is unknown whether this drawing is by Bosch or Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

[edit] Christ Carrying The Cross

Type: Pen
Size: 236 x 198 mm
Location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

This sketch would later be made into a painting.

[edit] Death of the Miser

Size: 256 x 149 mm
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

Although originally thought to have been a preparatory drawing for the painting "Death and the Usurer (Death of the Miser)", it is now believed that the drawing was executed by an unknown follower of Bosch. Examination of the underdrawing of the painting "Death and the Usurer" reveals that Bosch shortened Death's arrow in the final version. The length of the arrow in the drawing is equal to the length of the arrow in the painting, rather than in the underdrawing. The unknown artist of the drawing also embellished details including an orthodox cross below the barrel vault. The assertion that the drawing is of Bosch's hand is used by Lynda Harris to support her theory that Bosch was a practitioner of the Cathar religion. The "Death and the Usurer" drawing is paired with a similar "Ship of Fools Drawing" which has also been erroneously attributed to Bosch.

[edit] Group of Male Figures

Type: Pen
Size: 124 x 126 mm
Location: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

This is a study for an earlier painting.

[edit] Mary and John at the Foot of the Cross

Type: Brush
Size: 302 x 172 mm
Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden

[edit] Nest of Owls

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 140 x 196 mm
Location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

[edit] Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch

Type: Pencil and sanguine
Size: 410 x 280 mm
Location: Bibliotheque Municipale d'Arras, Arras

[edit] Scenes in Hell

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 163 x 176 mm
Location: Staatliche Museen, Berlin

[edit] Studies

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 205 x 263 mm
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

[edit] Studies of Monsters

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 318 x 210 mm
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

This is a two sided drawing.

[edit] Temptation of St Anthony

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 257 x 175 mm
Location: Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This sketch would later be made into a painting.

[edit] The Entombment

Date: 1507
Type: Ink and grey wash
Size: 250 x 350 mm
Location: British Museum, London

[edit] The Hearing Forest and the Seeing Field

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 202 x 127 mm
Location: Staatliche Museen, Berlin

[edit] The Ship of Fools

Date: c. 1500
Type: Wash on gray paper
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

Done after Bosch by an unknown artist.

[edit] The Ship of Fools in Flames

Type: Pen and bistre
Date: 176 x 153 mm
Location: Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

This is a sketch for The Ship of Fools.

[edit] Tree-Man

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 277 x 211 mm
Location: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

  • Date: c.1470s

The Tree-Man later appears in the Bosch triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.

[edit] Two Caricatured Heads

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 133 x 100 mm
Location: Lehmann Collection, New York

[edit] Two Monsters

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 164 x 116 mm
Location: Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This is a two sided drawing.

[edit] Two Witches

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 125 x 85 mm
Location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

[edit] Witches

Type: Pen and bistre
Size: 203 x 264 mm
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

Note: Brueghel's name appears on this drawing, however it is widely accepted as Bosch's.