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The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych
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One object, one accession: the Prado holds the triptych as P002823 and it is sold whole. Three sheets, one edition, $399 — the printed images hang level within 0%.
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In Eden the Lord stands in a long rose robe and takes Eve by the wrist, and Adam sits on the grass beside them. A giraffe grazes, an elephant walks, a pink fountain rises out of the water. Hieronymus Bosch made the triptych between 1490 and 1500, and the Prado reads it as one argument, a single concept of sin that starts in Eden with Adam and Eve and is punished in Hell. Between them lies the crowded garden: riders circling a pool, lovers inside glass and fruit, and a fountain like the one in Eden, the Prado notes, but broken here to show how fragile the delights are and how soon they end. On the right the city burns and a harp stands among the damned. Whole in Eden, broken in the garden, as the Prado has it, and the eye goes back to Eden.
The wings are the same height as the centre on the altarpiece itself (185.8 cm, all three), so each print is sized for the painted images to hang level side by side. Three sheets of one size would look tidy and leave the images about 19% out of line.
| Held by | Museo Nacional del Prado · P002823 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch High Resolution.jpg |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Panel · left | Paradise — 6,838 × 16,653 px |
| Panel · centre | The Garden of Earthly Delights — 15,195 × 16,390 px |
| Panel · right | Hell — 6,838 × 16,628 px |
| Chain | Each panel taken from the source file above and cut to its own painted field; held as 3 print masters. |
Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.