Ambrosius Benson

(Lombardy ? C. 1495 - Bruges 1550)

A Triptych: the central panel: The Lamentation, with The Deposition beyond; the wings: Saint Anthony Abbot, a burning city beyond; and Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata

With the arms Gules, a Calvary cross sable, within a chaplet (on the reverse of the left wing)

Oil on panel
61.6 X 94 cm ( 24 1⁄4 X 37 1⁄64 inches )

Don Indalecio Cano y de Luis, Fuentesauco, Zamora, by 1929.
Llorente del Rey, Madrid, from whom acquired in 1977 by the following,
The Derksen collection, Rotterdam, and by inheritance until 2012.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 February 2012, lot 641,
Private collection until July 2024.

Barcelona, Palacio Nacional, 'Arte en España', part of the Exposición Internacional de Barcelona, 20 May 1929-5 January 1930, no. 2043, as 'Anónimo Segoviano, discípulo de G. David'.
Barcelona, Palacio Alfonso XIII, Segunda Exposición de Anticuarios en España, 16-28 April 1977.

G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 142 and 282, no. 5, pl. 29.
E. Bermejo, 'Nuevas obras de Benson en España', Archivo Español de Arte, XCIII, April 1970, p. 126, no. 170.

Closed: 61.6 x 46.7 cm.