Hieronymus Bosch, Devil on Night Chair – Museum Figurine, Parastone Collection (PN JB07)

The Devil on Night Chair is a haunting yet fascinating image from the imagination of Hieronymus Bosch. This museum-quality figurine is produced by Parastone of The Netherlands, known for translating famous artworks into detailed three-dimensional forms. It allows modern viewers to experience Bosch’s vision in a tangible way.

The sculpture captures one of the most striking scenes from Bosch’s famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. In this composition, a grotesque devil sits upon a night chair and devours a sinner. The image is strange, humorous, and disturbing, reflecting Medieval ideas of sin and punishment. This figurine preserves those emotional contrasts, transforming Bosch’s painted nightmare into a collectible artwork for the modern age.

• Inspired by Bosch’s Devil on Night Chair from The Garden of Earthly Delights
• Hand-painted resin with fine sculptural detail and rich color
• Dimensions: 6 in H × 3 in W × 1.5 in D | Weight: 0.6 lbs
• Includes descriptive card about Bosch’s art and symbolism
• Also available in larger format (PN JB24)
• Part of the Parastone Collection, licensed by the Jheronimus Bosch Art Center

About the Artwork

In the late fifteenth century, Bosch painted scenes that combined theology, imagination, and humor. The Devil on Night Chair embodies this balance perfectly. The monstrous figure devours a human being and later excretes the remains, creating a visual metaphor for judgment and sin. Though unsettling, the image also contains wit. Bosch used absurdity to reveal moral truth—a reminder that vice leads to downfall and redemption remains uncertain.

Medieval audiences would have recognized these figures as part of a moral lesson. Bosch transformed ideas once confined to religious texts into powerful visual drama. The Devil on Night Chair shows how humor and terror worked together to communicate faith, fear, and repentance.

About the Artist: Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516)

Hieronymus Bosch was a painter from ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. His fantastic images set him apart from other artists of his time. Bosch combined Medieval symbolism with inventive compositions that seem almost modern. He filled his paintings with moral stories about temptation, judgment, and salvation.

His triptychs such as The Garden of Earthly Delights invite viewers to journey from innocence to sin and finally to chaos. Bosch’s unusual creatures—half-human, half-animal—still fascinate us today. Through humor and exaggeration, he softened the horror of evil while still warning against it. His influence reaches from Renaissance altarpieces to Surrealism, inspiring artists like Salvador Dalí centuries later.