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Creator
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Ambrosius Benson (1495-1550)
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Title
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Portrait of a Wife/
Portrait of a Husband
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Description
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Oil on panel
11 ¼ x 8 ½ in. (28.5 x 21.5 cm.)
The two portraits were originally part of a triptych which was dismantled about 1930. The central panel was auctioned at Christie’s, London in 1952 [See Auction Catalogues section]. The two shutters were reduced in size and portrayed a male and female facing a central Lamentation panel.
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Provenance
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Private Collection, Spain. [Spanish Art Gallery, London, founded by Lionel Harris (1862-1943) and later joined by his son, Tomás Harris (1908-1964), by 1926]. [Possibly Gaston Neumans, Brussels and Paris, by July 1929]. [Tomás Harris (1908-1965), London, sold May 1930 to]; [French & Company, New York, sold June 1930 to]; [French & Company, New York and M. Knoedler and Co., New York, possibly sold December 1933 to]; Walter P. Chrysler, New York, returned to; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York and French & Company, New York, sold May 1938 to]; [French & Company, New York]. Private Collection, Netherlands. [E. J. (Emanuel Jay) Rousuck (1898-1970), New York, sold December 1944 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, and E.J. Rousuck, New York, sold March 1945 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
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Auction Catalogues
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Related: Central Panel of Triptych:
1952 – Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., London, Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures and Drawings, the Property of Lady Wavertree, also Old Pictures from other Sources, 1 February 1952, lot 62, Benson The Deposition, sold to Hedden for 78.15 [Annotations from GRI Copy 2]
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Exhibitions
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1948 – Richmond, Indiana, Richmond Art Association, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters from Indiana Collections, 10-24 October 1948, nos. 10-1.
1950 – Indianapolis, IN, John Herron Art Museum, Holbein and His Contemporaries; Holbein and His Contemporaries; a loan exhibition of painting in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and England, 22 October – 24 December 1950, The Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana, no. 5 (pair), illus.
1960 – Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Indiana Collects. A Loan Exhibition of European and Latin-American Paintings owned by Collectors in the State of Indiana, 9 October – 6 November 1960, nos. 12-3, illus.
1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, nos. 8, 9, illus.
1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, nos. 2-3, illus.
1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 28-9, illus.
1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, nos. 12-3, illus.
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References
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The Spanish Art Gallery photo advertisement for Ambrosius Benson triptych, (Proprietor Lionel Harris), 50 Conduit Street, London, Pantheon (April 1928 Vol. 1): II*.
Knoedler Advertisement with Photographs of Benson pair, published in The Art Market, Parnassus (April 1931, Vol. III): 25.
Friedlander, Max J., Die Altniederländische Malerei: Die Antwerpener Manieristen Adriaen Ysenbrant, vol. 11. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff’s Uitgeversmij N.V., 1934, p. 147, no. 297.
“Million Dollar Art Exhibition.” INDAC (Nov. 1950): 19, 27.
Marlier, G. Ambrosius Benson et la peinture a Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint, Damme: Editions du Musée van Maerlant, 1957. Altarpiece with portraits: Plate XII (opposite p. 48), cat.7; p.100-1 Pl. XII, cat. 7; Portraits: p.246 Plate LXVII cat.128 entry mentions JHU portraits; Plate LXIX (opposite p. 275), cat. 139; p. 282-3, no. 7 (altarpiece), p. 318-9, cat. 139 (portraits).
Friedlander, Max J., Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists Adriaen Ysenbrant, vol. XI. Leiden and Brussels: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1974, p. 101, no. 297, pl. 184 (including an image with a triptych intact.)
Frick Photo Archive, Frick Art Reference Library, New York
Frick Set 1: (Herron set?)
Benson, Portrait of a Husband
Benson, Portrait of a Wife
Benson, Portraits of a Husband and Wife Info Sheet
Frick Set 2: (Knoedler set?)
Benson, Portrait of a Husband
Benson, Portrait of a Wife
Benson, Portraits of a Husband and Wife Info Sheet
Frick Set 3: (Digital Image set?)
Benson, Portrait of a Husband
Benson, Portrait of a Wife
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Status
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Under research
