Year c. 1500 Artist Hieronymus Bosch Genre Christian art | Medium oil on panel Created 1500 Media Paint, Oil paint | |
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Dimensions 71 cm × 70.6 cm (28 in × 27.8 in); 71.5 cm diameter (28.1 in) Location Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Periods Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting Similar Hieronymus Bosch artwork, Artwork at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | ||
The Wayfarer (or The Pedlar) is a Hieronymus Bosch painting. It is currently in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. This painting is round and 71.5 cm (28.1 in) in diameter. It is one of the fragments of a partially lost triptych or diptych, which also included the Allegory of Gluttony and Lust, the Ship of Fools and Death and the Miser.
The figure is similar to the man depicted in The Path of Life panel on the exterior of The Haywain Triptych. The character has been interpreted as choosing between the path of virtue at the gate on the right or debauchery in the house on the left, or as the prodigal son returning home from the world.
Tim Storrier's self-portrait The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch) won the 2012 Archibald Prize.
The wayfarer by stephen crane
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The Wayfarer Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA