Historians and scholars are pleased to announce that a small painting — it spent decades in storage at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — was indeed painted by Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch.
Monday was an important day in Dutch art history because the number of known surviving paintings by Hieronymus Bosch was increased by one. “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” — previously believed to have been painted by Bosch’s workshop — had sat in storage in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, since 1930.
Over the past five years, a team of researchers has been implementing sophisticated infrared technology in an attempt to both identify and study Bosch’s works. The attribution was announced Monday at the Noordrabants Museum in Bosch’s hometown. In fact, the museum has made headlines recently for having brought together 20 of the artist’s 25 surviving works for a major retrospective opening next week.
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Major Bosch Attribution
