The Garden of Paradise
1500
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1500
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
The Garden of Paradise is a 1500 oil by Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a fantastical garden scene with strange creatures and plants. It's interesting because of the many small details that tell a story. The artist included fruit, flowers, and birds to create a sense of wonder, and the way the creatures interact with each other adds to the intrigue. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of the artist: Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch.
Max Bondi sale, Galleria Lurati, Milan, December 9–20, 1929, no. 59. K. Postma, Carlton Hotel, Amsterdam, by January 1936 [according to a photograph in the Friedländer Archive, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; sold to Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, January 1936 [according to letter and stockcard kindly supplied by Hilde de Boer, November 15, 2000]; sold to J. B. Neumann Gallery, New York, December 1936 [according to De Boer stockcard cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, December 1936.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Jeroen Bosch: Noord-Nederlandsche Primitieven, 1936, cat. 49. Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Flemish Paintings, Feb. 23–Mar. 12, 1939, cat. 40; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mar. 25–Apr. 26, 1939. Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, November 1942. Brooklyn Museum, Landscape: An Exhibition of Paintings, Nov. 8, 1945–Jan. 1, 1946, cat. 13. Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Holbein and His Contemporaries, Oct. 22–Dec. 45, 1950, cat. 6. Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, 1974, no cat.
H. M. Smith, “Flemish Paintings at Worcester and Philadelphia,” Art in America 27 (1933), p. 92. AIC Annual Report 1936, p. 41. “Report for the Year 1936,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 31 (1937), pp. 19 (ill.), 41. Charles de Tolnay, Hieronymus Bosch, Basel, 1937, p. 104, no. 53; Eng. ed., New York, 1966, p. 384, no. 53. Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 14, Berlin and Leiden, 1937, p. 101; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 5, Brussels and Leiden, 1969, p. 90, Supp. 128, pl. 112. J. B. Neumann, Living Art: Old Masters, New York, 1937, n.pag.…
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This workshop made dreamlike panels full of odd plants, animals, and tiny human figures tangled in imaginary scenes.
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