THE VISITATION
Circa 1504
Sheet 8 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”
With monogram
303×213 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Between 1570 and 1585
Watermark:
a small coat of arms of a city (possibly Prague)
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2255
Comments:
a clear but grey impression without text on the back. It is dated by watermark (M. 196, III, c)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2256, on paper with a watermark: A two-headed eagle with a five-petal flower (M. 222; Br. 262, 263; 1596–1600). The impression dates from 1590s