Tomicka 2023
“Between Bosch and Bruegel. Catalepton (‘Trifles’) – What links the engravings Saint Martin after Jheronimus Bosch and Hope after Pieter Bruegel the Elder? (Joanna A. Tomicka) 2023
[in: Jos Koldeweij and Willeke Cornelissen (eds.), Jheronimus Bosch – His Workshop and His Followers – 5th International Jheronimus Bosch Conference, May 11-13, 2023, Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 2023, pp. 374-381]
The Saint Martin engraving after Bosch published by Hieronymus Cock around 1561 shows a port complete with buildings on the left side and on the right side the sea with numerous boats. The vast prospect is presented from an elevated point of view. Because the composition of the Hope engraving after Pieter Bruegel the Elder published by Hieronymus Cock around 1559-60 is similar to the the Saint Martin engraving, Tomicka suggests that the Hope engraving could have been inspired by Bosch. Perhaps not directly through the Saint Martin engraving but through other ways. A Prague archival source dating from 1621 mentions a St Martin painting by Bosch which is now lost.
[explicit May 26, 2024 – Eric De Bruyn]
