Follower of Joos van Cleve

With Maurice Woolff Jacobson, Paris;

By whose Executors erroneously donated to the National Gallery, London, before 1947 (inv. no. 5470);

Returned to Woolff Jacobson's heirs, after 1968;

Private collection, United Kingdom.

M. Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School: Plates, London 1947, p. 70, reproduced fig. 5470 (as after the Master of the Death of the Virgin);

M. Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School, 3rd ed., London 1968, p. 103, no. 5470 (as after the Master of the Death of the Virgin; 'usually identified with Joos van Cleve').

This composition closely relates to a design by Joos van Cleve (c. 1485–1540/41), of which the best-known version hangs today in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.¹

¹ Inv. no. ГЭ-411; oil on canvas, 42.5 x 31.5 cm.