Studio of Lucas Cranach the Younger, (Wittenberg 1515-1586 Weimar)

The Madonna and Child before a curtain held by two angels

The Madonna and Child before a curtain held by two angels
bears the artist's serpent device (upper left)
oil on panel
49.7 x 36.1cm (19 9/16 x 14 3/16in).

Provenance
Acquired by the present owner's family, Berlin, 1942
Private Collection, USA

Several versions of the present composition are known, including a painting by the workshop of Cranach the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, a panel by a Follower of Cranach in the Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg, and a copy after Lucas Cranach the Younger formerly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and offered at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 March 1956, lot 10. For further versions see M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Ithaca, 1978, nos. 388 J-N.

Note on the provenance
Exhaustive research has failed to yield any record of this painting other than as stated in the provenance. It does not appear on any list of missing works sought for restitution, nor to the best of our knowledge could it be confused with any such work.