Martin Schongauer

Circa 1450 – 1491
Germany

THE GREAT CRUCIFIXION WITH FOUR ANGELS

Circa 1474 – 1475

Bottom centre: a monogram, M+S

Copperplate engraving

290×195 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Watermark:
a small head of a bull with a flower

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-5374

Comments:

the watermark permits to state that the impression was made during Schongauer’s lifetime