Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIN

1510

Sheet 17 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”

Monogram and date 1510

Woodcut

297×209 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Between 1510 and 1511

Watermark:
a high crown

Provenance:

State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2279

Comments:

a rare impression, made before the publication of the whole series in 1511. It is dated by watermark (М. 205, I, a)