AMBROSIUS BENSON (LOMBARDY C. 1495-1550 BRUGES) AND WORKSHOP
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
20000GBP £ 20 000
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ID 1443009
Lot 105 | AMBROSIUS BENSON (LOMBARDY C. 1495-1550 BRUGES) AND WORKSHOP
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
The Lamentation
oil on panel, unframed, shaped top
23 5/8 x 14 ¼ in. (60 x 36.2 cm.)
Provenance
Charles Sedelmeyer (1837-1925), Paris; his sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 3-5 June 1907, lot 220, as 'Flemish School' (1,250 FF. to Fischoff).
Monsieur J. Mathys, Brussels (according to a label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, 15 November 2003, lot 1023, as 'Flemish School-Brussels, 16th Century'.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 1 December 2017, lot 6002, as 'Circle of Adriaen Isenbrandt'.
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei: Die Antwerpener Manieristen und Adriaen Ysenbrandt, XI, Berlin, 1934, p. 143, no. 254, as 'Ambrosius Benson', with two figures added in an unfamiliar style ('Mit zwei hinzugefügten Gestalten in fremdartigem Stil').
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 92 and 292, no. 40, where described in reverse.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrant, XI, New York and Washington, 1974, pp. 96 and 123, no. 254, pl. 168, illustrated in reverse, as 'Ambrosius Benson', with 'two figures in an unfamiliar style added'.
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