THE NATIVITY [THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS]
Circa 1503
Sheet 9 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”
With monogram
301×211 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
1580s
Watermark:
a swim bladder with a star and the letters "JM"
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2257
Comments:
the impression is grey, made from a worn plate, without text on the back. It is dated by watermark (М. 197, III, e)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2259, on paper with a watermark: A coat of arms with a diagonal line without other images (М. 246; Ha. 46; Br. 976–979; c. 1600s). The impression dates from 1600s
