Details
AMBROSIUS BENSON* (active 1519-1550)
Portrait of a Gentleman, small half length, wearing a fur-trimmed black coat and a hat, holding a ring
oil on panel
14¾ x 11 7/8in. (37.5 x 30cm.)
Provenance
Bainbridge Collection, London
with Wildenstein, & Co., Paris and London
Private Collection, Chile
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 7, 1976, lot 14 as Joos van Cleve (#18,000 to Colnaghi)
Private Collection
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, April 8, 1987, lot 31 (#50,000 to Colnaghi); purchased by Rudolf Nureyev from Colnaghi on Jan. 27, 1989 for $200,000
Literature
Weltkunst, no. 17, Sept. 1987, p. 2231 (advertisement)
The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1029, Dec. 1988, p. xxxvi (advertisement)
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Five Centuries of European Paintings, 1933, no. 10
Santiago da Chile, Los Condes Arte Antiguo Europeo, Nov. 1962, no. 40
London, Colnaghi, Paintings by Old Masters, June 7-July 7, 1978, no. 12
New York, Colnaghi, Gothic to Renaissance, European Painting 1300-1600, 1988, no. 29