BOSCH, Hieronymus
(b. ca. 1450, 's-Hertogenbosch, d. 1516, 's-Hertogenbosch)

Triptych of Temptation of St Anthony (detail)

1505-06
Oil on panel
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

The picture shows a detail of the central panel, which represents the Choir of Offering (after Fraenger).

In the group far right, a blasted tree trunk becomes the bonnet, torso and arms of a woman whose body terminates in a scaly lizard tail; she holds a baby and is mounted on a giant rat.