Hispano-Flemish School, 16th century

This composition is closely related to the right wing of a diptych by Hans Memling (1430–1494), previously believed to have survived only by way of copies, but now considered to be the painting in a British private collection.¹ The left wing of Memling's diptych, which depicts The Man of Sorrows, hangs today at the Galleria di Palazzo Bianco, Genoa.²

We are grateful to Till-Holger Borchert for proposing an attribution to the Hispano-Flemish School of the 16^th century and for his help in cataloguing this lot.

¹ Oil on oak panel, 53.2 x 37.2 cm. (including the later addition of strips of about 2.5 cm. on each side); T. Holger-Borchert, in Memling: Rinascimento fiammingo, T. Holger-Borchert (ed.), exh. cat., Milan 2014, pp. 130–33, no. 14, reproduced in colour.

² Inv. no. P.B. 1569; oil on oak panel, 53.4 x 39.1 cm. (including the later addition of strips of about 3.5 cm. on each side); https://www.museidigenova.it/it/cristo-dolente-atto-di-benedire.