Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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THE MASS OF ST. GREGORY

1511

Monogram and date 1511

Woodcut

306×209 mm

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