Provenance
(Possibly) Ami Linker, Bilbao.
with Juan Lafora, Madrid, by 1929.
with Hugo Perls and Käthe Perls, Berlin, and in storage at De Gruyter, The Hague, not before 10 May 1940,
Confiscated by ‘Sammelverwaltung feindlicher Hausgeräte 'Heim Holland', The Hague, October 1941.
Anonymous sale; Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 24-27 March 1942, lot 36, as Follower of Hugo van der Goes (to M.J. Schretlen).
Restituted to Hugo Perls, New York by the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (SNK), The Hague, in February 1950.
with Shaeffer Galleries, New York.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29 February 1956, lot 10, as Ambrosius Benson.
Lewis J. Ruskin (1903-1981) and his wife, Lenore Ruskin Heavenrich, née Ginsburg (1920-1993), Scottsdale, by whom gifted in 1958 to the Arizona State University Art Museum.
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, XI, Berlin, 1933, p. 142, no. 242, as Ambrosius Benson.
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la Peinture a Bruges au Temps de Charles-Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 123-125, no. 20, pl. XXII, as Ambrosius Benson.
'7 Art Masterpieces, valued at $250,000, Given to ASU' The Arizona Republic, 27 November 1958, p. 1, as Ambrosius Benson.
E. Johnson, 'College Museum Notes', College Art Journal, XVIII, no. 3, Spring 1959, p. 257, as Ambrosius Benson.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists, New York and Washington, 1974, p. 95, no. 242, pl. 164, as Ambrosius Benson.
J.-L. Pypaert, 'Early Netherlandish Painting XV ? Joseph van der Veken', Autour de la 'Madelene Renders': Un Aspect de l'Histoire des Colelctions, de la Restuaration et de la Contrefaçon en Belgique dans la Première Moité du XXe Siècle, p. 258, no. 204, illustrated, as Ambrosius Benson.