The Lamentation of Christ, Cornelis Cornelisz II Buys (attributed to), c. 1530 - c. 1540

…; ? collection Gabriel Jasper Gerrit de Vidal de Saint Germain (1808-87), Het Reelaer, Raalte; ? his daughter, Elisabeth de Vidal de Saint Germain; ? her husband, Adriaan Henri Lambertus de Bel, Bussum; ? from whom sold to Willem Hendrik Köhler (1876-1931), Utrecht; ? by whom bequeathed to Gabriel Jasper Gerrit de Bel (1879-1951); his widow, Johanna de Bel-Paris (1886-?), Amsterdam;{The provenance has been reconstructed by Mr. A. Otter, son-in-law of Johanna de Bel-Paris, in a letter dated 15 September 1973, file RMA.} her sale et al., Amsterdam (Mak van Waay), 2 June 1970 sqq., no. 77, unsold;{Copy RKD} from Johanna de Bel-Paris, Amsterdam, fl. 7,500, to the museum, with support from the Jubileumfonds 1958, 1972

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