THE BETROTHAL OF THE VIRGIN
Circa 1504
Sheet 6 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”
With monogram
296×209 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Before 1511
Watermark:
a high crown
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2248
Comments:
one of the first trial impressions, made before the edition with the text on the back. It is dated by watermark (M. 194, I)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2250, on paper with the same watermark as Inv. Г-2248; without text, the plate is slightly worn. The impression dates from the same time
