Ambrosius Benson

Art market, Paris;

Where acquired by Victor Martin-Le Roy (1843-1918), Paris, 1891;

Thence by descent, until at least 1974;

Anonymous sale, Versailles, Martin-Chausselat, 18 October 1998, lot 12;

Where acquired by a private collector, Europe;

By whom anonymously sold ("Property from a European Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 5 December 2018, lot 1;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

E.F. von Bodenhausen, Gerard David und seine Schule, Munich 1905, p. 203, cat. no. 48, reproduced;

W.H.J. Weale, "Les peintres de la famille Benson à Bruges, 1519-1585," in Annales de la société d'émulation de Bruges 58 (1908), p. 154, cat. no. 5;

P. Leprieur and A. Pératé, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Paris 1909, vol. V, pp. 85-87, cat. no. 23, reproduced pl. XXI;

A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. III, Vienna and Leipzig 1911, p. 23;

S. Reinach, Répertoire des Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, vol. IV, Paris 1918, p. 656, reproduced as a line engraving, fig. 2;

G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint, Damme 1957, pp. 196-197, 309, cat. no. 100;

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrant, H. Pauwels (ed.), vol. XI, Leiden 1974, p. 99, cat. no. 275i (as location unknown);

P. Le Chanu, in Nouvelles acquisitions du Département des Peintures (1983-1986), J. Foucart (ed.), Paris 1987, p. 59, reproduced.