Battle Elephant, The - Vienna

Anonymous

16th century

Location:

Last location: Vienna - Austria - Dorotheum Auctioned on 24.04.2013, lot 4.

Material:

Dimensions:

39,7 x 53,2

Unverfehrt catalogue:

6 - Fig. 92

De Vrij catalogue:

More information

A similar composition can be found in Palazzo Pitti in Florence, in the British Museum in London, The Royal Library in Brussels, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, in the Noordbrabants Museum in's-Hertogenbosch and in Albertina in Vienna. A colored version is in the possession of an unknown owner in Corella in Spain.

Credit line:

History:

Private collection in Austria.

Literature:

Compare: Max J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, V (Geertgen van Harlem und Hyronimus Bosch), Berlin 1927, p. 129b); Hollstein, J.H.W., Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, Vol. III (Bosch), No. 43, p. 147 ; Le siècle de Bruegel: La peinture en Belgique au XVIe siècle, exh. cat. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels 1963, No. 336; Jerome Cock éditeur d’estampes et graveur, 1507?-1570, exh. cat. Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Brussels 1970, No. 107; Timothy Riggs, Hieronymus Cock. Printmaker and Publisher, New York 1977, No. 11; Jos Koldeweij (Ed.), Hieronymus Bosch. Das Gesamtwerk, exh. cat. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, September 1st – November 11th, 2001, Stuttgart 2001, p. 16, Fig.10.

Source:

From website ‘wikimedia.org – Bosch Belagerung eines Elefanten’.

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