THE AUSTRIAN SAINTS
1515–1517
No monogram
Inscription:
S. Quirinus Archiepiscopus Lauriacensis deinde Patriarcha Aquilegiensis Martyr. S. Maximilianus Archiepiscopus Lauriacensis Martyr. S. Florianus Tribun militum Martyr lauriaci passus. S. Severinus post Attilam regem Hunorum defunctum sekundarius Austrie Apostolus. S. Colomanus Martyr apud Stokbarau passus. S. Leopoldus Princeps pius Marchio Austrie. S. Poppo Marchio orientalis Archiepiscopus Treuerensis. S. Otto Marchio orientalis Episcopus Frisingensis.
173×357 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Before 1570
Second state with eight saints
No watermark
Provenance:
N. Basnin’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1918;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-5367
Comments:
in the early impressions above the inscription there is a Latin rhyme by the poet and historian Johannes Stabius. It is absent from the impressions made after 1570. In the same time gaps appear in the nimbi of the saints. As the nimbi are intact in the impressions belonging to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, it can be supposed that this is an early impression, where the bottom part with the rhyme is cut off; therefore, it is dated before 1570s (М. 219, 2, until the item c)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2402, on paper with a watermark: a two-headed eagle with the letter К (М. 229; Br. 281; 1578–1583). Many strokes are missing in the nimbi of the saints; the impression dates from 1580s
Plate:
Berlin. Kupferstichkabinett
