The Garden of Paradise

1. Max Bondi sale, Galleria Lurati, Milan, December 9–20, 1929, no. 59. K. Postma, Carlton Hotel, Amsterdam, by January 1936 [according to a photograph in the Friedländer Archive, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; sold to Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, January 1936 [according to letter and stockcard kindly supplied by Hilde de Boer, November 15, 2000]; sold to J. B. Neumann Gallery, New York, December 1936 [according to De Boer stockcard cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, December 1936.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Jeroen Bosch: Noord-Nederlandsche Primitieven, 1936, cat. 49.
• Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Flemish Paintings, Feb. 23–Mar. 12, 1939, cat. 40; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mar. 25–Apr. 26, 1939.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, November 1942.
• Brooklyn Museum, Landscape: An Exhibition of Paintings, Nov. 8, 1945–Jan. 1, 1946, cat. 13.
• Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Holbein and His Contemporaries, Oct. 22–Dec. 45, 1950, cat. 6.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, 1974, no cat.

• H. M. Smith, “Flemish Paintings at Worcester and Philadelphia,” Art in America 27 (1933), p. 92.
• AIC Annual Report 1936, p. 41.
• “Report for the Year 1936,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 31 (1937), pp. 19 (ill.), 41.
• Charles de Tolnay, Hieronymus Bosch, Basel, 1937, p. 104, no. 53; Eng. ed., New York, 1966, p. 384, no. 53.
• Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 14, Berlin and Leiden, 1937, p. 101; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 5, Brussels and Leiden, 1969, p. 90, Supp. 128, pl. 112.
• J. B. Neumann, Living Art: Old Masters, New York, 1937, n.pag. (ill.).
• Leo van Puyvelde, “The Character of Flemish Art,” Art News 37, 22 (1939), p. 52 (ill.).
• Dorothy Odenheimer, “The Garden of Paradise by Bosch,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 34 (1940), pp. 106–07 (cover ill.).
• “When Bosch Dreamed of Paradise,” Art Digest 15, 6 (1940), p. 13 (ill.).
• “A Tour of the World of Art in 150 Masterpieces,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), p. 62 (ill.).
• Wilhelm Fränger, The Millenium of Hieronymus Bosch, trans. Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, Chicago, 1951, pp. 49–50, pl. 6.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, pp. 28, 143 (ill.).

Young Woman at an Open Half-Door

Art Institute of Chicago

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Small Workshop of Mechanics

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Art Institute of Chicago

Three Nude Women

Art Institute of Chicago

Mercury with the Head of Argus

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Jerome in the Desert

Art Institute of Chicago

Casket

Art Institute of Chicago

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