The Last Judgment

• Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911), Amsterdam, by 1907-1911 [1]
• by descent to Hoogendijk heirs, Amsterdam, 14.05.1911 - 1912
• their sale, Tableaux anciens dépendant des collections formées par M.-C. Hoogendijk de la Haye, Frederik Muller et Cie, Amsterdam, 14.05.1912, lot 18
• Musée van Stolk, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 08.05.1912 - 1928
• its sale, 300 Sculptures et Tableaux, Xe-XVIe siècles, Objets de vitrine – Art Textile, etc., Frederik Muller et Cie, Amsterdam, 08.05.1928, lot 379
• possibly Johanna Grossmann-Kanoldt (1890-1940), Munich, by 22.11.1928 [2]
• with Gottschewski-Schäffer Galleries, Berlin, by 1932
• Florenz Wigger (b. 1873), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, by 1932 - until at least June 1937
• inherited by his wife, Karoline Wigger, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, by 30.08.1947 [3]
• purchased from Wigger by Peter Nathan, Zürich, on joint account with Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by September 1959-1960 [4]
• purchased from Schaeffer by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960

NOTES:
[1] The painting was on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1907-1911 and is included in the 1911 Rijksmuseum collection catalogue. According to Dr. A van Schendel, Director of the Department of Paintings, Rijksmuseum, in a letter to Mr. H. Schaeffer, Schaeffer Galleries, 22.06.1959, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Schaeffer Galleries Records, box 59, the painting was returned to the Hoogendijk heirs in 1911.
[2] The Grossmann-Kanoldt collection is listed in the painting’s provenance as published in Schaeffer Galleries, Schaeffer Galleries: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1936-1961 (New York: Schaeffer Galleries, 1961), unpaginated, but no date of ownership is given. In a letter from Ludwig Burchard, art historian, to Johanna Grossmann-Kanoldt, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Schaeffer Galleries Records, box 59, Burchard tells Grossmann-Kanoldt that the painting is a genuine work by Cranach and is in good condition.
[3] According to an unaddressed note from Karoline Wigger, 30.08.1947, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Schaeffer Galleries Records, box 59, she had already sold the painting but it was still in her possession for safety reasons.
[4] According to Hanns Schaeffer, Schaeffer Galleries, in a letter to Peter Nathan, 09.05.1960, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Schaeffer Galleries Records, box 117, Correspondence, Nathan and Schaeffer had joint ownership of the painting. According to Jakob Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, in a letter to Ross Taggart, Senior Curator, 29.05.1973, NAMA curatorial files, Kate Schaeffer told Rosenberg that Hanns Schaeffer bought the painting back from its owner in Garmisch-Partenkirchen before selling it to NAMA.

[NAMA online database, accessed 22.12.2020]

Amsterdam 1907 - 1911
Berlin 1937, no. 41
Kansas City 1960, no. 68