CHRIST TAKING LEAVE OF HIS MOTHER
Circa 1504 – 1505
Sheet 16 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”
Story:
With monogram
300×211 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Between 1507 and 1511
Watermark:
a high crown
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2275
Comments:
a very rare impression, made before the publication of the whole series in 1511. It is dated by watermark (М. 204, I, a)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
1) Inv. Г-2277, on paper with a watermark: a crown above a coat of arms with a lily (М. 122; c. 1600s). An impression without text, made c. 1600s;
2) Inv. Г-112060, on paper with a watermark: a small coat of arms of a city (possibly Prague) (М. 273, Br. 2322, 1542–1545). An impression made between 1570 and 1585. It is dated by watermark
