THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
Circa 1504 – 1505
Sheet 13 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”
With monogram
302×212 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-2269
Comments:
the impression is without text, made from a strongly worn plate. It is dated by watermark (M. 201, III, b)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2268, on paper without watermarks, without text; of quality similar to Inv. Г-2269; apparently, it also dates from the second half of the 16th century
