Ambrosius Benson (In the Lombardy 1495 – 1550 Bruges). The Adoration of the Magi. Circa 1525 Oil on panel (with round arched closure). 86,2 × 62 cm (33 ⅞ × 24 ⅜ in.). Registered at RKD (Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, the Hague) as a work by the hand of Ambrosius Benson (https://Rkd.Nl; Abfrage am 7.4.2023).– [3008] Provenance: Heinrich Baron von Mecklenburg, Pantlitz (until 1862, until 1872 in the estate) / Albert Figdor, Vienna (acquired at auction in Vienna 1872, until 1927, in the estate until 1930) / Charles Albert de Burlet, Berlin (acquired at auction in Berlin 1930) / A. J. De Jong Schouwenburg, Gorssel (until 1935) / Nathan Katz, Dieren (acquired at auction in Gorssel 1935) / Galerie D. Katz, Dieren (1936) / Private Collection, USA (acquired on 8.12.1939 from the Schaeffer Galleries, New York, the representatives of the D. Katz Family, thence by descent to the present owner) Exhibition: Hollandsche, Vlaamsche en Italiaansche kunst in de 16e en 17e eeuw. Uit de collectie der firma D. Katz te Dieren. Nijmegen, house Belvoir, 1936 Literature and illustration: Auction: Catalog von Original-Gemälden alter Meister. Sammlung des verstorbenen Herrn Baron Heinrich von Mecklenburg. Wien, Miethke & Wawra, in the Künstlerhaus, 11./12.11.1872, cat.-no. 106 (as Jan van Scorel) / Theodor von Frimmel: Gemälde in der Sammlung Albert Figdor in Wien. In: Kleine Galeriestudien, N.F. 4. 1896. Leipzig, published by Georg Heinrich Meyer, 1896, p. 18-21, ill. p. 19 (as „Richtung des Meisters der weiblichen Halbfiguren“) / Eberhard von Bodenhausen: Gerard David und seine Schule. Munich, Verlagsanstalt F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1905, p. 143-144, no. 20a (as repetition after Gerard David, Brügge, ca. 1550) / Die Sammlung Dr. Albert Figdor, Vienna. 1st Part. 3rd Volume. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Artaria & Co. and Glückselig GmbH, Vienna, 29.9.1930, cat. no. 48 („Art des Ambrosius Benson“) / Auction: Catalogus van de inboedel en de verzamelingen van de weled. Heer A.J. De Jong Schouwenburg op de huize „De Ravensweerd“ te Gorssel (Gelderland), 24.9.1935, cat. no. 345 (as „Ambrosius Benson attributed“) / Georges Marlier: Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint. Damme, Editions du Musee van Maerlant, 1957, p. 89-90 and p. 287-288, no. 23, ill. pl. 6 / Max J. Friedländer: Early Netherlandish painting. Leyden, Sijthoff, u.A., 1967- 1976. 14 vols., here vol. 6/2, cat. no. 180a (Copy after Gerard David, ca. 1530), and vol. 11, cat. no. 243a (Ambrosius Benson)