Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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THE VISITATION

Circa 1504

Sheet 8 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”

With monogram

Woodcut

303×213 mm

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