Death and the Miser

Hieronymus Bosch

c. 1485/1490

Death and the Miser by Hieronymus Bosch

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 · 14501516

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...

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