Concert in the Egg

Concert in the Egg

Artist	(follower of) Hieronymus Bosch
Year	ca.1561
Type	oil on canvas
Dimensions	108 cm × 126.5 cm (43 in × 49.8 in)
Location	Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Concert in the Egg is a painting formerly considered to be a copy of a lost work by Hieronymus Bosch, and which is currently considered to be based on one of his drawings. Max Jakob Friedländer called it 'an old copy', without specifying another work it was copied from.^[1]

Symbolism

Hieronymus Bosch. Singers in an egg. Pen en brown ink on paper, Berlijn, Kupferstichkabinett.

The group of singers form the "yolk" of the egg, which symbolizes "fool" as in "yokel". The eel resembles a form of beer (ale). The scene is reminiscent of the similar Ship of Fools (painting). One of the singers is so intent on his song (pointing towards the book) that he doesn't notice that he is being robbed by the lute player.

Modern attribution of the painting (to an as yet anonymous follower of Bosch) was based on an analysis of the music in the open book, which shows notes by Thomas Crecquillon from 1549.^[2] The work was bought in 1890 for 400 francs by the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille from Morhange, a parisian art dealer.^[1] It was featured with the Dutch title Zangers en musici in een ei in an exhibition in 2008 at the Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch.

References

1 2 RKDimages, nr 60898 (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie)
↑ record [40001726] (Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium)

See the Dutch Wikipedia article
Max Jakob Friedländer Early Netherlandisch Painting. Volume V. Geertgen tot Sint Jans and Jerome Bosch, 1969, Leiden, A.W. Slijthof; Brussels, La Connaissance.
Koldeweij, A.M., P. Vandenbroeck en B. Vermet (2001) Jheronimus Bosch. Alle schilderijen en tekeningen, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers, ISBN 90-5662-219-6

Hieronymus Bosch

Single panels	Adoration of the Child Adoration of the Magi (New York) Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid) Christ Child with a Walking Frame Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London) Concert in the Egg The Conjurer Crucifixion with a Donor Cutting the Stone Death and the Miser Death of the Reprobate Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1470s) Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1490s) Head of a Halberdier Head of a Woman Hell The Marriage Feast at Cana Paradise and Hell The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things Ship of Fools Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child St. Jerome at Prayer St. John the Evangelist on Patmos St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness The Temptation of St Anthony Two Male Heads The Wayfarer

Triptychs	The Crucifixion of St Julia Adoration of the Magi (The Epiphany) The Garden of Earthly Delights The Haywain Triptych Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony The Hermit Saints

Triptych fragments	Fall of the Damned into Hell Ascent of the Blessed The Last Judgment The Last Judgment, Bruges (with workshop) The Last Judgment (fragment) Terrestrial Paradise

Related	Bosch paintings Bosch drawings

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