Monogrammist S

Worked in 1520s
Germany

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THE PRODIGAL SON

1513

Top, close to the centre: a monogram and a date, S 1513

Copperplate engraving

232×185 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Watermark:
is unclear because the sheet is mounted on dense paper

Provenance:

State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2443

Comments:

a mirror reflection of Albrecht Dürer's etching, with a false Dürer's monogram