Follower of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco (Candia 1541-1614 Toledo) The MadonnaFollower of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco (Candia 1541-1614 Toledo)The Madonna oil on canvas, possibly a fragment48.4 x 37.8cm (19 1/16 x 14 7/8in).ProvenancePrivate Collection, Madrid, 1927With Matthiesen, Berlin, 1929Collection of Jakob Goldschmidt, New YorkSale, Sotheby's, 28 November 1956, lot 128 (as 'El Greco', sold for £14,000 to Turner)Private Collection, London, 1957The Collection of Hilmar Reksten, by whose bankrupt estate offeredSale, Christie's, London, 9 April 1990, lot 54Private Collection, GreeceLiteratureA.L. Mayer, 'Zu dem werk des Greco,' in Der Cicerone, vol. XXI, 1929, p.540, ill., as El GrecoM. Legendre and A. Hartmann, El Greco, London 1937, p. 140, as El GrecoH.E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, Princeton, 1962, vol. II, pp. 189-90, no. X-108, as a copyT. Frati, L'opera completa del Greco, Milan, 1969, under no. 99aThe 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.