Lot 641: Ambrosius Benson (Lombardy c. 1495-1550 Bruges)

Ambrosius Benson (Lombardy c. 1495-1550 Bruges)
A triptych: central panel: The Lamentation, with The Deposition beyond; the outer faces: Saint Anthony Abbot, a burning city beyond; and Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata
with the arms Gules, a cross Calvary sable, within a chaplet (on the reverse of the left wing)
oil on panel
open 24¼ x 37 in. (61.6 x 94 cm.); closed 24¼ x 18 3/8 in. (61.6 x 46.7 cm.)

Barcelona, palacio Nacional, 'l arte en España', part of the Exposición Internacional de Barcelona, 20 May 1929-5 January 1930, p. 331, no. 2043, as 'Anónimo Segoviano, discípulo de G. David' (lent by Cano y de Luis).
Barcelona, Palacio Alfonso XIII, Segunda Exposición de Anticuarios en España, 16-28 April 1977, p. 97, illustrated.

G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 142 and 282, no. 5, pl. XXIX. E. Bermejo, 'Nuevas obras de Benson en España', Archivo Español de Arte, p. 126, no. 170.

Don Indalecio Cano y de Luis, Fuentesauco, Zamora, by 1929.
Llorente del Rey, Madrid, until 1977 when acquired by
Derksen collection, Rotterdam, and by inheritance to the present owners.

Ambrosius Benson (Lombardy c. 1495-1550 Bruges)
A triptych: central panel: The Lamentation, with The Deposition beyond; the outer faces: Saint Anthony Abbot, a burning city beyond; and Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata
with the arms Gules, a cross Calvary sable, within a chaplet (on the reverse of the left wing)
oil on panel
open 24¼ x 37 in. (61.6 x 94 cm.); closed 24¼ x 18 3/8 in. (61.6 x 46.7 cm.)