Follower of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco (Candia 1541-1614 Toledo)
The Madonna
oil on canvas, possibly a fragment
48.4 x 37.8cm (19 1/16 x 14 7/8in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private Collection, Madrid, 1927
With Matthiesen, Berlin, 1929
Collection of Jakob Goldschmidt, New York
Sale, Sotheby's, 28 November 1956, lot 128 (as 'El Greco', sold for £14,000 to Turner)
Private Collection, London, 1957
The Collection of Hilmar Reksten, by whose bankrupt estate offered
Sale, Christie's, London, 9 April 1990, lot 54
Private Collection, Greece

Literature
A.L. Mayer, 'Zu dem werk des Greco,' in Der Cicerone, vol. XXI, 1929, p.540, ill., as El Greco
M. Legendre and A. Hartmann, El Greco, London 1937, p. 140, as El Greco
H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, Princeton, 1962, vol. II, pp. 189-90, no. X-108, as a copy
T. Frati, L'opera completa del Greco, Milan, 1969, under no. 99a


The present work is based on part of El Greco's Holy Family with Saint Anne and the infant Baptist, now in the Prado, Madrid. Another version, formerly accepted by Wethey and now regarded as a studio work, is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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