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There are several similar paintings. The composition is partly similar to the paintings in the National Museum in Warsaw, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg and the Auction at Christies on December 15, 2020 lot 6.
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History:
Arthur Cull (London, England); 1931, (J. Ledger and Son, London, England and New York, New York, USA); 1933, GK (possibly Kleinberger, New York, New York, USA) no. 16130; sold by (F. Kleinberger, Paris, France); May 1935, purchased by (F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, New York, USA) [for $350]; May 1935, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) [for $750]
Literature:
Richardson, E.P. "Christ in Limbo by Herri Met de Bles." Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 3 (1935): pp. 31-34 (ill.). Richardson, E.P. Flemish Painting of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Detroit, 1936, (fig. 14). Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 14, no. 437. Corwin, N.A. "The Fire Landscape: Its Sources and Its Development from Bosch through Jan Brueghel I, with Special Emphasis on the Mid-Sixteenth Century Bosch 'Revival,'" Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, Seattle, 1976, no. 86, pp. 298-299, pl. 93. [attrib. to "Hand N," c. 1550.] - Unverfehrt, Gerd. "Zwei Gemaelde der Bosch-Nachfolge aus dem Museum Narodowe zu Warschau." Bulletin du musee national de Varsovie 10, no. 3 (1978): pp. 51-73, 68-72 (ill. 14). Page 202 - Ill. 190
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Website 'dia.org' Also in 'rkd.nl' - Kunstwerknr. 43668; Afbeeldingsnr. 0000061381
