Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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THE NATIVITY [THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS]

Circa 1510

Sheet 4 from the series “The Small Passion”

With monogram (the letter D turned to the left)

Woodcut

127×98 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Late 16th – early 17th century

No watermark

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2298

Comments:

the impression is grey, without text, from a plate where many strokes are missing

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2299, on paper without watermarks, without text, made in approximately the same time as Inv. Г-2298