According Wannanes Auctions

The painting, like the panel now kept in the Indianapolis Museum, refers to a follower of Hieronymus Bosch who was still active in the sixteenth century and finds suitable characters with a similar date to 1575, the date of the American version. . There is little doubt that both document an original composition by the master that has been lost, but show us all his extraordinary and surreal ingenuity. The picture shows Christ's descent into Limbo to save the souls of the righteous who lived before his time. History and iconography have held a special place in the European popular imagination and this vision of Hell, with its eternal darkness punctuated by the dazzling entry of the Redeemer, is exceedingly vivid.

Similar compositions can be found in Paris at art dealership Robert in 1910, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in the Rudolfinum in Prague, in Cologne at kunsthandel Lempertz and in London in three places: Hampton Count Palace, Sotheby's in 2004 and Cristies in 2007.