ID 887443
Lot 114 | AMBROSIUS BENSON (?LOMBARDY C. 1495-1550 BRUGES)
Estimate value
$ 350 000 – 550 000
The Virgin and Child
oil on panel
5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (14.6 x 14.6 cm.)
Provenance
[The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1925, lot 15 (to Vick).
with Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., London, from whom acquired by,
Edith Stanton Newberry (1870-1956), Detroit, by descent to,
John S. Newberry, Detroit, by whom donated in 1957 to,
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church; Sotheby's, New York, January 29, 2015, lot 4, where acquired by,
A. Alfred Taubman (1924-2015); (†) his sale, Sotheby’s, New York. 27 January 2016, lot 16, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XLVII, April 1925, p. XVII.
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson, et la Peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 116, 297, no. 60.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists, XI, Leiden, 1974, p. 97, no. 260, fig. 170.
Exhibited
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., 1926.
| Artist: | Ambrose Benson (1495 - 1550) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Ambrose Benson (1495 - 1550) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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