Lucas Cranach the Younger

CHRIST AS THE MAN OF SORROWS TOGETHER WITH THE VIRGIN AND SAINT JOHN

WITTENBERG 1515 - 1586

signed upper left with the artist's device of a serpent with folded wings
oil on panel, a fragment
12 3/8 by 28 3/4 in.; 31.5 by 73 cm.

Provenance:
Private Collector, Munich;
Confiscated from the above on 18, November 1938 and allocated for the Kunstmuseum Linz (inv. 2550);
Recovered by the Monuments Men and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (inv. 4273), on 15 July 1945;
Transferred to Wiesbaden on 25 May 1949 and restituted to the heirs of the private collector on 2 December 1949;
Thence by descent.