Provenance
said to come from the Dominican Church at Bruges destroyed during the Thirty Years War
Mons. van Spreybrouck, Bruges, by whom sold in 1890 to
Vicomte Léon Ruffo de Bonneval de la Fare, Brussels; sale, Brussels, May 23, 1900, lot 6, illustrated, as Memlinc (withdrawn), and by descent to his heirs, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1960
Literature
G. Hulin de Loo, Quelques peintres brugeois de la première moitié du XVIe siècle--Jan Provost, Kunst en Leven (L'art et la vie), année I, 1902, V, p. 19, no. 7
G. Hulin de Loo, Catalaogue critique: Exposition de tableaux flamands des XIV, XV et XVI siècles, 1902, no. 169
W.H. J. Weale, Early Painters of the Netherlands as Illustrated by the Bruges Exhibition of 1902, The Burlington Magazine, II, 1903, p. 332
M.J. Friedländer, Von Eyck bis Bruegel, 1921, p. 120
M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerie, IX, 1931, p. 149, no. 159
R.A. Parmentier, Bronnen voor de Geschiedenis van het Brugsche Schildersmilieu in de XVIe Eeuw, Revue Belge d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, XIV, 1944, pp. 14-16, fig. I
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Paintings, IXb, 1973, pp. 87, 114, no. 159, pl. 172
N. Reynauld, Une Allégorie Sacrée de Jan Provost, La Revue du Louvre et des Musée de France, vol. 25, 1975, p. 10, note 7, as ?
Exhibited
Bruges, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'art Ancien, June 15-Sept. 15, 1902, no. 169 (lent by Vicomte Ruffo)
Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Charles-Quint et son Temps, April 3-June 30, 1955, no. 107, as Provost
