The composition by El Greco himself is known from an altarpiece painted by El Greco in 1591 for the church of Talavera la Vieja, near Toledo, which was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Three canvasses survived however and the central one from the upper part of the altarpiece being The Coronation of the Virgin, now in the Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo. There are numerous differences between the Schorr canvas and the Toledo work especially in the disposition of the Saints who occupy the lower part of the composition in both pictures. The upper part in the two pictures is much more similar, except for the difference in scale. In the Schorr picture, the cleaning revealed that the three figures on the right were floating above a view of Toledo which had been entirely overpainted. The integration of a view of Toledo and a Coronation of the Virgin occurs in El Greco’s related Coronation of the Virgin in the chapel of San Jose, Toledo.

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