Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Flemish, active in Antwerp, 1554-1575)
after Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, c. 1450-1516)
Saint Martin with his Horse in a Ship
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Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Flemish, active in Antwerp, 1554-1575)
after Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, c. 1450-1516)c. 1561
Saint Martin with his Horse in a Ship
Johannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Flemish, active in Antwerp, 1554-1575) after Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, c. 1450-1516) →engravingprint
Date
c. 1561
Medium
Etching and engraving on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 34.4 × 43 cm (13 9/16 × 16 15/16 in.); sheet: 36 × 44.2 cm (14 3/16 × 17 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley and William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
In Hieronymus Bosch’s antic vision of the world, appearances were often deceiving. Here Saint Martin’s pious act of dividing his cloak to clothe a naked beggar takes place within a chaotic panorama of beggars of all types—both those genuinely afflicted by deprivation and disease and mere charlatans.