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BRUGES SCHOOL, CIRCA 1525

Lot 13
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1441860
Lot 13 | BRUGES SCHOOL, CIRCA 1525
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
BRUGES SCHOOL, CIRCA 1525
The Virgin and Child with a parrot
oil on panel
11 ½ x 8 ¼ in. (29.2 x 21 cm.)




Provenance

Nelles Collection, Cologne, until 1895.
Camillo List, Mödling.
Aldo Noseda, Milan (according to RKD Research Files).
Stefan von Auspitz (1869-1945), Vienna, by whom consigned in 1931 to the following,
with K.W. Bachstitz, The Hague, where acquired in 1932 by,
Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, from whom acquired in July 1941 via the following,
Hans Posse, for the "Sonderauftrag Linz" (Linz no. 2030).
Recovered by the Allies' Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 12 July 1945 (MCCP no. 3913).
Returned to the Netherlands (Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit), 29 March 1946 (SNK no. 607), from whom reacquired in June 1950 by the following,
Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, and by descent.



Literature

M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei: Die Antwerpener Manieristen. Adriaen Ysenbrant, XI, Leiden, 1933, p. 144, no. 261, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrant, XI, Leiden and Brussels, 1974, p. 97, no. 261, pl. 170, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 111, 112, 299 and 300, no. 68, pl. XXI, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
A. Janssens de Bisthoven, Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Groeningemuseum) Brugge: De Vlaamse Primitieven, I, rev. ed., Brussels, 1981, p. 211, no. 2(g), as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
J. Giltaij, D.G. 50 jaar Van Beuningen 1958-2008, online, 2012, accessed 13 May 2025, p. 42, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.



Exhibited

London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, An Exhibition of the Von Auspitz Collection of Old Masters by courtesy of Herr Walter Bachstitz, November-December 1932, no. 14, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Herwonnen kunstbezit: keuze-tentoonstelling van uit Duitsland teruggekeerde Nederlandse kunstschatten, 19 November 1946-2 January 1947, no. 4, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
Paris, Petit Palais, Chefs d'oeuvre de la collection D.G. Van Beuningen, 31 October 1952-15 February 1953, no. 37, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Fleurs et Jardins dans l'Art Flamand, 1960, no. 12, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
Laren, Singer Museum, Nederlandse Primitieven uit Nederlands Particulier Bezit, 1 July-10 September 1961, no, 7, as 'Ambrosius Benson'.
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