Death and the Miser
Hieronymus Bosch
c. 1485/1490
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
overall: 93 × 31 cm (36 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.) framed: 107.95 × 46.04 × 9.53 cm (42 1/2 × 18 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CNE-R
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1952.5.33
About the Artist
Hieronymus Bosch · 1450–1516
Considered the most distinctive and idiosyncratic of 15th-century Netherlandish artists, he produced a body of work remarkable for its depiction of fantastic, often diabolic, creatures, generally moralizing representations of the consequences of sin and folly. He was the first European artist to give free rein to almost uncontrolled association, formal inventivity, and free choice of ideas. Commen...