Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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FORTUNE

1497

With monogram

Copperplate engraving

106×65 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Late 15th century

Watermark:
a head of a bull with a five-petal flower

Provenance:

N. Basnin’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1918;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-5162

Comments:

it is one of the first impressions made by Dürer. It is dated by a watermark and by the quality of the plate (M. 71, a)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2104, on paper without watermarks, first half of the 16th century (M. 70, d)