Lot 112: Circle of Ambrosius Benson (?Lombardy late 15th century-before 1550 Bruges)

Circle of Ambrosius Benson (?Lombardy late 15th century-before 1550 Bruges)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in black robes with a ruff and a black mantle, holding a pair of gloves in his right hand
dated '15 46' (upper left and right)
oil on panel
21¾ x 18¼ in. (55.3 x 46.3 cm.)

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Catalogue of a collection of Paintings belonging to H. Heilbuth, 1920-21, no. 50.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Le Siecle de Bruegel, 1963, no. 11.

A. Gold, 'Die Sammlung Heilbuth', Der Cicerone, 1921, pp. 89-93, illustrated.
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson, Brussels, 1957, pp. 258-9 and 321, no. 147, fig. LXXVI.

Count Cenami, Luca.
Marcel Nicolle, Honorary Attaché at the Louvre, Paris; (possibly) his sale, J.A. Doucet, Paris, 1912.
with Trotti, Paris, 1911[?].
Herman Heilbuth (1861-1945), Copenhagen; his sale, Lepke, Berlin, 10 December 1925, lot 115.
with Arthur Ackermann & Son, London and New York.
with Victor D. Spark, New York, 1952.
with Wildenstein, New York, by 1957.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 April 1988, lot 75, as 'Ambrosius Benson' (£13,200).

Circle of Ambrosius Benson (?Lombardy late 15th century-before 1550 Bruges)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in black robes with a ruff and a black mantle, holding a pair of gloves in his right hand
dated '15 46' (upper left and right)
oil on panel
21¾ x 18¼ in. (55.3 x 46.3 cm.)