List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch

Bosch's signature from the triptych Adoration of the Magi. Only a few of the surviving paintings by the master are signed.

This article lists paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, as well as paintings attributed to him or his school. For Bosch's drawings, see Hieronymus Bosch drawings. Since the precise chronology of Bosch's works is currently impossible to establish, paintings within sections are sorted alphabetically. The recent very thorough investigation by The Bosch Research and Conservation Project of a multitude of Bosch's paintings included dendrochronological research and made an approximate dating of the paintings possible. The findings of this investigation were published in a book in 2016.^[1] All dates given below are taken from this reference. The book describes the other findings of the investigation as well, such as painting technique, layer structure and pigment analyses. Illustrated pigment analyses of Bosch's paintings can also be found at ColourLex.^[2]

Bosch's works are generally organized into three periods of his life dealing with the early works (c. 1470–1485), the middle period (c.1485–1500), and the late period (c. 1500 until his death). According to Stefan Fischer, thirteen of Bosch's surviving paintings were completed in the late period, with seven surviving paintings attributed to his middle period.^[3] Bosch's early period is studied in terms of his workshop activity and possibly some of his drawings. There are no surviving painting attributed to before 1485.

Examples of Bosch's work can be found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, the UK, and the US.

Triptychs

Image	Details
	Adoration of the Magi ca 1491 - 98 Oil on wood 138 × 144 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain The outer panels form a single image, Saint Gregory's Mass, rendered in grisaille.
	The Garden of Earthly Delights ca 1495-1505 Oil on wood 220 × 389 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain The outer panels form a single image, The Creation of the World, rendered in grisaille.
	The Haywain 1510-16 Oil on wood 147 × 232 cm (Escorial version) 135 x 190 cm (Prado version) El Escorial, Spain (version 1) Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain (version 2) Two versions of this triptych exist, one in El Escorial, the other in Museo del Prado. Both are most probably copies of a lost Bosch original. The outer panels form a single image, usually referred to as The Path of Life.
	Passion Triptych c. 1530 Commissioned by Mencía de Mendoza (1508-1554) for her burial chapel (the Chapel of the Epiphany) in the convent of Santo Domingo, Valencia Oil on panel 163 × 382 cm Museu de Belles Arts de València, Valencia, Spain Probably not a work by Bosch, but by a Flemish follower.
	Hermit Saints Triptych ca 1495-1505 Oil on wood 86 × 100 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
	The Last Judgment ca 1500-05 Oil on wood 163.7 × 127 cm (central panel) 167.7 × 60 cm (left wing) 167 × 60 cm (right wing) Academie für Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria The outer panels show two images: Saint James the Greater and Saint Bavo, both rendered in grisaille.
	The Last Judgment ca 1495-1505 Oil on wood 99.5 × 117.5 cm Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium Attributed to Bosch and/or his workshop. The outer panels form a single image, Christ Crowned with Thorns.
	The Martyrdom of St. Julia ca 1495-1505 Oil on wood 104 × 119 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
	The Temptation of St. Anthony ca 1500-10 Oil on wood 131.5 × 225 cm Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal The outer panels show two images: The Arrest of Christ and Christ Bearing the Cross, both rendered in grisaille.

Diptychs and polyptychs

Image	Details
	Diptych (Hell and the Flood) The Fall of the Rebel Angels {Front {top} and back {bottom} Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat Mankind Beset by Devils (on the reverse sides) Oil on wood 69.5 × 35 cm (each panel) 34.5 cm (diameter of paintings on the reverse sides) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Polyptych (Visions of the Hereafter) Fall of the Damned Hell Terrestrial Paradise Ascent of the Blessed 1505-15 Oil on wood 86.5 × 39.5 (each) Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy Also known as Cardinal Grimani's Altarpiece. Probably part of a larger (four more paintings) altarpiece, now lost.

Single panels and fragments of lost altarpieces

The life of Christ

Image	Details
	Adoration of the Child Oil on wood 66 × 43 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany Bosch's authorship is disputed; possibly a copy after a lost Bosch original. Another, wider version of the same painting is kept in Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch (on loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), and yet another is in Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels.
	Adoration of the Magi ca 1470-80 Oil on wood 71.1 × 56.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Described by Friedländer as ‘an especially early work by the master’; later deemed a 16th-century pastiche; more recently thought to be a work dating back to the 1470s from Bosch's immediate circle^[4]
	Adoration of the Magi Oil on wood 94 × 74 cm Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
	Crucifixion With a Donor Oil on wood 74.7 × 61 cm Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
	Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna) ca 1490-1510 Oil on wood 57 × 32 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria The reverse side of the panel has another painting on it, Christ Child with a Walking Frame (diameter 28 cm).
	Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent) ca 1530-40 Oil on wood 74 × 81 cm Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium Bosch's authorship is disputed.
	Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid) ca 1495-1505 Oil on wood 150 × 94 cm Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain
	Christ Crowned with Thorns (London) ca 1490-1500 Oil on wood 73 × 59 cm National Gallery, London, UK
	Christ Crowned with Thorns (Escorial) ca 1530-40 Oil on wood 165 × 195 cm El Escorial, Spain Painted neither by Bosch nor his workshop.
	Ecce Homo (Philadelphia) Oil on wood 52 × 54 cm Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Previously attributed to Bosch; dendrochronological analysis proved it to be a late 16th century work by a follower
	Ecce Homo (Frankfurt) ca 1475-85 Oil on wood 71 × 61 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
	The Marriage Feast at Cana Oil on wood 93 × 72 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Several versions of this painting exist. However, none of these date from Bosch’s lifetime.

Saints

Image	Details
	St. Jerome at Prayer ca 1485-95 Oil on wood 77 × 59 cm Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium
	St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child ca 1490-1500 Oil on wood 113 × 71.5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca 1490-95 Oil on wood 48.5 × 40 cm Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain
	St. John the Evangelist on Patmos ca 1490-95 Oil on wood 63 × 43.3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany The reverse side of the panel has a round double painting (diameter 39 cm) on it: Scenes from the Passion of Christ (outer circle) and The Pelican with Her Young (inner circle).
	The Temptation of St. Anthony ca 1530-40 Oil on wood 70 × 51 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Bosch's authorship is disputed.

Other works

Image	Details
	Allegory of Gluttony and Lust ca 1500-10 Oil on wood 35.8 × 32 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA Fragment of a lost triptych which also included Ship of Fools (the Allegory would be the lower part of that outer wing) and Death and the Miser (the other outer wing).
	The Conjurer ca 1530-40 Oil on wood 53 × 65 cm Musée Municipal, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France Bosch's authorship is disputed.
	Death and the Miser ca 1500-10 Oil on wood 92.6 × 30.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA Outer wing of a lost triptych. The other outer wing comprised Ship of Fools (top) and Allegory of Gluttony and Lust (bottom).
	Death of the Reprobate Oil on wood 34.6 × 21.2 cm Private collection, New York, USA Probably a copy of a fragment of a lost triptych.
	Cutting the Stone ca 1500-20 Oil on wood 48 × 35 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Also known as The Cure of Folly.
	Head of a Halberdier Oil on wood 28 × 20 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Fragment of a Christ Crowned with Thorns by a follower of Bosch.
	Head of a Woman Oil on wood 13 × 5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Fragment. Attribution uncertain.
	The Last Judgment (fragment) ca 1530-40 Oil on wood 60 × 114 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany Fragment of a lost triptych. Bosch's authorship is disputed.
	The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things ca 1510-20 Oil on wood 120 × 150 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Bosch's authorship is disputed.
	Ship of Fools ca 1500-10 Oil on wood 58 × 33 cm Louvre, Paris, France Fragment of a lost triptych which also included Allegory of Gluttony and Lust (which is the lower part of the Ship of Fools wing) and Death and the Miser (the other outer wing).
	The Wayfarer ca 1500-10 Oil on wood 71.5 cm (diameter) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands This is the outer panel of a lost triptych.

References

↑ Luuk Hoogstede, Ron Spronk, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Hanneke Nap, and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman – Technical Studies, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016.
↑ ColourLex: Art and Science
↑ Stefan Fischer. Bosch: The Complete Works.
↑ See: Gallery Label Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Database

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Single panels	Adoration of the Child Adoration of the Magi (New York) Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid) Christ Child with a Walking Frame Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London) Concert in the Egg The Conjurer Crucifixion with a Donor Cutting the Stone Death and the Miser Death of the Reprobate Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1470s) Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1490s) Head of a Halberdier Head of a Woman Hell The Marriage Feast at Cana Paradise and Hell The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things Ship of Fools Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child St. Jerome at Prayer St. John the Evangelist on Patmos St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness The Temptation of St Anthony The Temptation of St Anthony (Kansas City) Two Male Heads The Wayfarer

Triptychs	The Crucifixion of St Julia Adoration of the Magi (The Epiphany) The Garden of Earthly Delights The Haywain Triptych Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony The Hermit Saints

Triptych fragments	Fall of the Damned into Hell Ascent of the Blessed The Last Judgment The Last Judgment, Bruges (with workshop) The Last Judgment (fragment) Terrestrial Paradise

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