Ship of Fools (painting)

The Ship of Fools

Artist	Hieronymus Bosch
Year	1490-1500
Type	Oil on wood
Dimensions	58 cm × 33 cm (22.8 in × 13.0 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Reconstruction of the triptych.

Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, now on display in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts. The Ship of Fools was painted on one of the wings of the altarpiece, and is about two thirds of its original length. The bottom third of the panel belongs to Yale University Art Gallery and is exhibited under the title Allegory of Gluttony. The wing on the other side, which has more or less retained its full length, is the Death and the Miser, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The two panels together would have represented the two extremes of prodigiality and miserliness, condemning and caricaturing both.

Dendrochronological study has dated the wood to 1491, and it is tempting to see the painting as a response to Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff or even the illustrations of the first edition of 1493. Another possible source for the ship allegory is the 14th-century Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme by Guillaume de Deguileville , which was printed in Dutch in 1486 (shortly after William Caxton printed it as The Pylgremage of the Sowle in 1483).^[1]

A Drawing of the Ship of Fools, also in the Louvre, appears to be a later copy.

Notes

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↑ Walter Bosing: Heronymus Bosch Between Heaven and Hell (London 1994) reprinted as Bosch The Complete Paintings (Taschen 1994) pp. 29-30

Hieronymus Bosch

Single panels	Adoration of the Child Adoration of the Magi (New York) Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid) Christ Child with a Walking Frame Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London) Concert in the Egg The Conjurer Crucifixion with a Donor Cutting the Stone Death and the Miser Death of the Reprobate Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1470s) Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1490s) Head of a Halberdier Head of a Woman Hell The Marriage Feast at Cana Paradise and Hell The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things Ship of Fools Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child St. Jerome at Prayer St. John the Evangelist on Patmos St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness The Temptation of St Anthony Two Male Heads The Wayfarer

Triptychs	The Crucifixion of St Julia Adoration of the Magi (The Epiphany) The Garden of Earthly Delights The Haywain Triptych Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony The Hermit Saints

Triptych fragments	Fall of the Damned into Hell Ascent of the Blessed The Last Judgment The Last Judgment, Bruges (with workshop) The Last Judgment (fragment) Terrestrial Paradise

Related	Bosch paintings Bosch drawings

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