Property from the Estate of EVELYN LEVINSON STEIN
Studio of JOOS VAN CLEVE (c. 1485-1540/1)

Details
Studio of JOOS VAN CLEVE (c. 1485-1540/1)

The Madonna of the Cherries
oil on panel
18¼ x 15¼in. (46.3 x 38.7cm.)
Provenance
M. Beattie, Glasgow
Sir Stuart M. Samuel; sale, Christie's, London, March 25, 1927, lot 86, as Joos van Cleve (310 gns. to Smith)
with Wildenstein, Paris
William Goldman, New York (acquired from Wildenstein by exchange)
Edwin D. Levinson, New York, and by descent in the family
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, 1924, IXa, no. 63K, pl. 79, as J. van Cleve, copy
Exhibited
New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, Inc., catalogue by H.G. Sperling with a preface by M.J. Friedländer, Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in aid of the Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc., 1929, no. 57, as Joos van Cleve the Elder, with certificate of Dr. Max J. Friedländer
Omaha, Society of Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial, 1942, as Joos van Cleve

Lot Essay

One of the many studio versions of this coposition based on a lost original by Joos van Cleve which was in turn inspired by a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci