The Marriage Feast at Cana (Bosch)

The Marriage Feast At Cana is a painting that was formerly attributed to the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch. The painting is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Several copies exist of this picture. The copy in Boijmans had been considered the original. Dendrochronological analysis has proven conclusively that it cannot have been painted earlier than 1550.

The Marriage Feast At Cana
Artist	Traditionally attributed to Hieronymus Bosch
Year	After 1550
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	93 cm × 72 cm (37 in × 28 in)
Location	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Provenance

A wedding-feast by or after Bosch belonged to the Rubens collection in Antwerp. The painting at Boijmans was bought in Antwerp by an English painter. It has been sawed down and the upper corners subsequently shaped into steps. At the time it showed a portrait and only when the overpainting was removed did the tempera painting of the wedding come to light. “What was revealed was a poor, not to say, wholly disfigured, painting”.^[1]

References

1. Marijnissen, Roger H. (1995). Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works. Antwerp. p. 420.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Sources

• van Asperen de Boer, J.R.J.; et al. (1994). Van Eyck to Bruegel. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans Van Beuningen.