Fools Ship (painted c) 1490-1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, now on display at Musà © e du Louvre, Paris. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that is cut into pieces. The Ship of Fools is painted on one of the altar's wings, and about two-thirds of the original length. The lower third of the panel belongs to Yale University Art Gallery and exhibited under the title Allegory of Gluttony . Wing on the other hand, which has more or less maintained its full length, is Death and Mind , now at the National Art Gallery, Washington, DC. Two panels together will represent two extremes of arrogance and stinginess, cursing and making caricatures of both.
The dendrochronological study has dated wood for 1491, and it is tempting to see the painting in response to Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff or even an illustration of the first edition of 1493. Another possible source for allegorical vessels is the 14th century Le PÃÆ'¨lerinage de l'ÃÆ'â € Å¡me by Guillaume de Deguileville, printed in Dutch in 1486 (shortly after William Caxton printed it as The Pylgremage of the Sowle in 1483).
A Drawing the Fools Ship , as well as at the Louvre, appears to be a copy later.
Dendrochronological studies by Peter Klein have radically changed the origin of some paintings, for example the Escorial panel Crowning with Thorns can only be painted after 1525 and not the original Bosch. The same goes for a wedding party in Cana in Rotterdam that can only be painted after 1553. It also becomes clear that the Rotterdam Pedlar tondo, the Paris Ships of Fools panel and the Washington panel < i> Death of a Miser has been painted on wood from the same tree.
Two to eight years between tree felling and its use as a painting substrate enables The Ship of Fools to be a direct allusion to a frontist from Sebastian Brant's book.
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