THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
Ambrosius Benson (active 1519-1550)

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Ambrosius Benson (active 1519-1550)

Portrait of a Lady, half length, wearing a dress with red slashed sleeves and a fur stole and holding a rosary

on panel

15¾ x 12¾in. (40 x 32.7cm.)

Lot Essay

The present picture would seem to be the pendant to Benson's portrait of a man in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, which has an identical green background (M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, XI, ed. H. Pauwels, Leyden, 1974, p.99, no.282 and pl.178)

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