Hsu 2023
“In the Manner of Jan Wellens de Cock? A Study of the Chimei Museum’s Christ in Limbo” (Yu Han Hsu) 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. 110-130]
This paper focuses on the attribution of the Christ’s Descent into Hell panel by an anonymous Bosch follower, currently in the Chimei Museum (Taiwan) through the perspectives of iconography and technical studies. The panel is a variant of the Christ’s Descent into Hell panel in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. A number of motifs used by the Taiwan painter were also used by Bosch followers who can be situated in the environment of Jan Wellens de Cock. Technical studies of the Chimei painting do not provide further evidence to support a link with the circle of Jan de Cock, as the underdrawing and the original paint layers have not been well preserved. But the differences between the underdrawing and the final painted version reveal that the painter was actively adjusting and recreating the pre-existing design.
[explicit April 15, 2024 – Eric De Bruyn]
