Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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Religious genre, Images of Saints, Saint Veronica

SAINTS VERONICA, PETER AND PAUL

1510

Sheet 22 from the series “The Small Passion”

Story:

An apocryphal story created in 15^th century

Monogram and date 1510

Woodcut

126×98 mm

Handbooks:

B. VII, 38; M. 147; С. 187; TIB. X, 238

Impression in the Museum collections

First half of the 16^th century

No watermark

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2338

Comments:

the impression is without text, on thin paper, with insignificant gaps in the bottom part of the frame

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2339, on paper without watermarks, without text. A late 16^th – early 17^th century impression, on thick dense paper; significant parts of the sudarius are missing