THE MASS OF ST. GREGORY
1511
Monogram and date 1511
306×209 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Before 1530
Watermark:
a head of a bull with a five-petal flower
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2397
Comments:
one of the early impressions, rich, clear. It is dated by watermark (М. 226, b)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-112048, on paper with a watermark: a head in a circle (М. 11a; Br. 15. 719; 1597–1600). The impression dates from after 1590s