Koreny 2023
“Jheronimus Bosch, Observations on his painting style” (Fritz Koreny) 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. 168-181]
In 2016, the catalogue raisonné published by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project considered twenty Bosch paintings unreservedly autograph, but the different style and technique of some of those pictures (impasto paint application, clearly perceptible relief of the brushstroke, left-handed underdrawing) point to another, second artist with excellent skills, who worked with and alongside Bosch. This collaborator painted the Prado Haywain and the Lisbon St Anthony triptychs. The drastic overpaintings on the Madrid Saint John the Baptist panel and the wings and the donors on the outside of the Prado Adoration of the Magi triptych were also done by him. According to Koreny, this ‘second Bosch’ was also responsible for the Pedlar triptych (Rotterdam, Paris, New Haven, Washington) and the Ghent St Jerome at Prayer panel.
[explicit April 28, 2024 – Eric De Bruyn]
