# Triptych of Temptation of St Anthony \(right wing\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOSCH, Hieronymus]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on panel, 131,5 x 53 cm ## Commentary The powerful evocation of a corrupt and stinking world is no less apparent in the right wing, where Bosch used as his starting point the story of the Devil-Queen, a subject he had already depicted in the Hermit Saints altarpiece. The Devil-Queen appears in the river before Anthony, shielding her private parts with a false modesty and surrounded by her infernal court. Anthony averts his eyes from this obscene group only to be summoned by a demon-herald to the devilish feast in the foreground. The open-air table, the cloth slung tent-like over the tree stump beside the temptress, and the servants pouring wine seem like a grotesque parody of the traditional Garden of Love. In the background looms the city of the Devil-Queen, its demonic nature betrayed by the dragon swimming in the moat and by the flames erupting from the top of the main gate. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(central panel\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Gluttony and Lust]() - [Animal studies]() - [Beehive and Witches]() - [Beggars and Cripples]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()