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Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Camille Benoit donated it in 1918. Louvre restored it in 2015. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts. The Ship of Fools was painted on one of the wings of the altarpiece, and is about two-thirds of its original length. The bottom third of the panel belongs to Yale University Art Gallery and is exhibited under the title Allegory of Gluttony. The other wing, which has more or less retained its full length, is the Death and the Miser, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The two panels together would have represented the two extremes of prodigality and miserliness, condemning and caricaturing both. The Wayfarer(Rotterdam) was painted on the right panel rear of the triptych. The central panel, if existed, is unknown.

The Ship of Fools
Artist	Hieronymus Bosch
Year	c. 1490–1500
Medium	Oil on wood
Dimensions	58 cm × 33 cm (22.8 in × 13.0 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Dating/provenance

Dendrochronological study has dated the wood to 1491, and it is tempting to see the painting as a response to Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff or even the illustrations of the first edition of 1493. Another possible source for the ship allegory is the 14th-century Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme by Guillaume de Deguileville, which was printed in Dutch in 1486 (shortly after William Caxton printed it as The Pylgremage of the Sowle in 1483).[1]

A Drawing of the Ship of Fools [nl], also in the Louvre, appears to be a later copy.

Dendrochronological studies[2] by Peter Klein have radically altered the provenance of some paintings, for instance the Escorial Crowning with Thorns panel can only have been painted after 1525 and so is not a Bosch original. The same goes for the Rotterdam Marriage feast at Cana panel which can only have been painted after 1553. It has also become clear that the Rotterdam Pedlar tondo, the Paris Ship of Fools panel and the Washington Death of a Miser panel have been painted on wood from the same tree.

The two to eight years between the felling of the tree and its use as a painting substrate allows The Ship of Fools to be a direct satire of a frontispiece[3] of Sebastian Brant's book.

Notes

На других языках

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[de] Das Narrenschiff (Hieronymus Bosch)

Das Narrenschiff ist ein Gemälde des niederländischen Malers Hieronymus Bosch. Es entstand zwischen 1490 und 1510[1] und befindet sich heute im Louvre in Paris.[2]

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- [en] Ship of Fools (painting)

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[es] La nave de los locos

La nave de los locos es un cuadro del pintor flamenco el Bosco, ejecutado en óleo sobre tabla y que mide 58 cm de altura por 33 cm de anchura. Actualmente se encuentra en el Museo del Louvre de París (Francia), donde llegó en 1918[1] y que lo exhibe con el título de La Nef des fous.

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[fr] La Nef des fous (Bosch)

La Nef des fous est un tableau du peintre néerlandais Jérôme Bosch (v. 1450-1516). Huile sur panneau de 58 × 32 cm, réalisé vers 1500 (date conjecturale), il est actuellement exposé au Musée du Louvre, à Paris. Il faisait jadis partie, avec La Mort de l'avare et Allégorie de la débauche et du plaisir, respectivement à la National Gallery of Art (Washington) et à la Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven), du Triptyque du vagabond, dont le panneau central a disparu.

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[it] Nave dei folli (Bosch)

La Nave dei folli è un dipinto a olio su tavola (57,9x32,6 cm) di Hieronymus Bosch, databile al 1494 circa e conservato nel Museo del Louvre di Parigi.

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[ru] Корабль дураков (картина Босха)

«Корабль дураков» (фр. La Nef des fous) — одна из наиболее известных картин нидерландского художника Иеронима Босха. Картина была верхней частью створки несохранившегося триптиха, нижним фрагментом которой ныне считается «Аллегория чревоугодия и сладострастия».

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