Martin Schongauer

Circa 1450 – 1491
Germany

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Gospel According to Luke, Religious genre

NATIVITY

Circa 1470 – 1473

Story:

Gospel according to Luke 2, 6–7

Bottom centre: a monogram, M+S

Copperplate engraving

255×166 mm

Handbooks:

B. VI, 4; L. V, 5; TIB. VIII, 1, 005

Impression in the Museum collections

Before 1491

Watermark:
a Gothic "P" with a flower

Provenance:

an Antiquarian Burdanov’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2520

Comments:

probably one of the last lifetime impressions