The Virgin and Child with two angels

Dr. Dieter Koepplin viewed the present painting on 15 April 2002, judging it to by an old copy from the early 17th century (written correspondence, 2 May 2002). Several versions of this composition are known, including a workshop painting 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 (sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 March 1956, lot 10; see M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Ithaca, 1978, nos. 388 J-N). We are grateful to Joshua Waterman for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.