 From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the name of Joos van Cleve as an artist was lost.The paintings now attributed to Joos van Cleve were, at that time, known as the works of "the Master of the Death of the Virgin", after the triptych currently in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Cologne).In 1894 it was discovered that the monogram on the back of the triptych was that of Joos van der Beke, an alias of Joos van Cleve.