![]() ![]() The central character and true focus of the image is the man of rank in the forefront who leans in and is fixed on the pearl in the conjurer's hand while unaware of being relieved of his money purse. ![]() ![]() The conjurer on the right of the image captures his apt and diverse audience with a game of cups and balls. Description īosch depicts how people are fooled by lack of alertness and insight, creating a "spellbinding tension" that reappears in his later paintings. The collection seems especially to have been formed by his father John Alexander Ducastel, a painter and collector. The painting comes from the bequest of Louis Alexandre Ducastel, a notary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye from 1813, who was also city council member and mayor in August 1835 and (provisionally) in 1839. On 1 December 1978 the painting was stolen from the museum and returned on 2 February 1979. There are five versions of this painting and one engraving, but most experts believe the most reliable copy is part of the collection of the Musée Municipal in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which is kept locked in a safe and loaned out on a limited basis for special exhibitions in France and abroad. ![]() The Conjurer is a painting by Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch or his workshop, executed around 1502. Painting by Hieronymus Bosch The Conjurer ![]()
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