CHRIST TALKING LEAVE OF HIS MOTHER
Circa 1508 – 1509
Sheet 5 from the series “The Small Passion”
Story:
With monogram
125×97 mm
Handbooks:
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-2302
Comments:
the impression is without text, obscure, the plate has a vertical crack going through the figure of Christ; parts of outlines of mountains and the frame are missing, permitting to date it from the late 16th – early 17th century
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
1) Inv. Г-2300;
2) Inv. Г-81061
Both on paper without watermarks and text; in quality are similar to the same period as Inv. Г-2302
