Studies of Monsters
by BOSCH, Hieronymus, Pen and bistre, 318 x 210 mm
In a group of drawings attributed to Bosch with reasonable certainty, monsters proliferate in a multitude of shapes, no two exactly alike. Legs sprout from grotesquely grinning heads, obscene bladder-like forms develop snouts and legs; some creatures are all head or rump. This taste for monsters Bosch shared with his age, which was fascinated by the grotesque and the unnatural.