Title

Portrait of a Man Praying

Author

Benson, Ambrosius

?, ca 1495 - Bruges, 1550

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Observations

Colin Eisler has related this work to a female portrait now in the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.

Fragment of a panel, cut down at the lower edge. It was probably the left wing of a diptych or triptych.

In 1934 in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection.

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Bibliography

• D. Marechal (1998): "Portrait d'homme", en M.P.J. Martens (ed.), Bruges et la Renaissance. De Memling à Pourbus : Notices, Ludion, Gand, p. 87 (n° 54).
• C.T. Eisler (1989): The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection: Early Netherlandish painting, Sotheby's, London, pp. 228-231.
• M.J. Friedländer (1974): Early Netherlandish Painting, XI. The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrant, Praeger, New York, p. 100, il. 181.
• G. Marlier (1957): Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint, Musée Van Maerlant, Damme, pp. 245, 315, il. 65.

Locations

• Private collection, Riga (Latvia)
• 1934 - 1992: Collection Heinrich baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, Rechnitz (Austria)
• 1992: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (Spain) (Inventory number: 1934.3)