![]() ![]() The owner invited Ilsink, and other experts with the Bosch Research and Conservation Project to analyze the drawing. Matthijs Ilsink, a Bosch specialist with Noordbrabants, had only known about the work from a book, but suspected it might be more important than other scholars thought, he told a Dutch language newspaper, de Volkskrant, in an article by Wieteke van Sail. The drawing was auctioned from an unknown source in 2003, and has been privately owned since then. ![]() ![]() Beyond the monster-tower, a dragon spews other doomed souls into a large cauldron. Human bodies also hang inside a giant bell on the creature's back, as if the people were its clappers. The scene features a tower, where a net scoops up lost human souls toward a water wheel, which protrudes from a monstrous creature's gaping maw. ![]() The size of the drawing and the spectacle it contains make it "an exceptionally important addition to body of drawings," a statement by the Noordbrabants museum says. Now, experts announced that the drawing is by the hand of the master himself, and not one of his assistants as previously thought, reports Claire Voon for Hyperallergic. In the artwork, grotesque creatures cavort across the hellish landscape in a scene one might call Boschian, after the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. A drawing long kept in a private collection just gained a famous attribution. ![]()
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