Lot Essay
Several versions of the composition are recorded: in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (M.J.Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, 1971, VIb, no.194a, plate 201); present whereabouts unknown (Friedländer, op.cit., no.194b, plate 201); Anon.Sale, Brussels, 26 May 1930, lot 12, as A.Benson (photograph in the RKD). The composition derives from David's Lamentation in the National Gallery, London (Friedländer, op.cit., no.194, plate 201).