THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST
Circa 1505
Sheet 10 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”
With monogram
297×211 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Between 1505 and 1511
Watermark:
a high crown
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2260
Comments:
it is a very rare impression, made by Dürer before the publication of all the series. Such impressions also exist in Berlin, Brunswick and Hamburg. It is dated by watermark (М. 198, I, a)
