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The side panels are based on the painting in Museu de Arte Antiga in Lisbon; in the central panel are several other creations included.
The painting is borrowed from the Escorial.
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History:
The center panel was in the middle of the 17th century owned by Don Fernando in Zarzuela, Duke of Benavent. Then to Madrid privately from Alama da d'Ossuna. In 1905, through inheritance came into possession of the Duchess of Duena 1905 -1964. The middle panel is signaled by Friedländer in 1942 by Marie-Therese de la Béraudière in Paris in 1947 by Mia Schmidt in Paris Then donated to the Prado in Madrid by Alice van Buuren in Brussels. The panels were until 1839 in the Escorial and now form part of the catalog of the Prado, however, lent to the El Escorial, where they are joined to the center panel in 1964.
Literature:
G. van Camp, in: Belg. tijdschrift voor Oudheidk. en Kunstgesch., XXIV, 1-2,1955,p. 29-38 - Le siècle de Bruegel: la peinture en Belgique au XVIe siècle, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruselas, 1963, pp. 63, nº41. Buzatti, Dino, La obra pictórica completa de el Bosco, Noguer, Barcelona, 1968, pp. 107. Pérez Sánchez, A. E., Diez años de años de adquisiciones para el Museo del Prado, Goya: revista de arte, 90, 1969, pp. 365. Museo Nacional del Prado, Principales adquisiciones de los últimos diez años: 1958-1968, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1969, pp. 17-18. Bermejo, Elisa, La pintura de los primitivos flamencos en España, II, C.S.I.C., Instituto Diego Velázquez, Madrid, 1980, pp. nº25. Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo del Prado: catálogo de las pinturas, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1985, pp. 72. Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo del Prado: inventario general de pinturas, III, Museo del Prado, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1996, pp. nº1880. Garrido Pérez, Carmen, El Bosco en el Museo del Prado. Estudio Técnico, Museo del Prado, 2001, pp. 194-202.
Source:
Website 'museodelprado.es', 'rkd.nl' and 'bridgemanart.com'
