Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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THE ASSUMPTION AND CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN

1510

Sheet 18 from the series “The Life of the Virgin”

Monogram and date 1510

Woodcut

294×208 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Between 1510 and 1511

Watermark:
a head of a bull with a cross and a flower

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2280

Comments:

a rare impression, made before the publication of the whole series with the Latin text in 1511. It is dated by watermark (M. 206, I)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2283, on paper with an unclear watermark; the impression is without text; made in the second half of the 16th century