{
"data": {
"id": 136176,
"accession_number": "1959.99.12",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "The Life of the Virgin: The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1501\u20131503. Albrecht D\u00fcrer (German, 1471\u20131528). Woodcut; sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1959.99.12",
"current_location": null,
"title": "The Adoration of the Magi",
"series": "The Life of the Virgin",
"creation_date": "c. 1501\u20131503",
"creation_date_earliest": 1501,
"creation_date_latest": 1503,
"artists_tags": [
"male"
],
"culture": [
"Germany, early 16th Century"
],
"technique": "woodcut",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Prints",
"collection": "PR - Woodcut",
"type": "Print",
"measurements": "Sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"sheet": {
"height": 0.298,
"width": 0.211
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 301400,
"title": "Albrecht D\u00fcrer - 500th Anniversary",
"description": "Albrecht D\u00fcrer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).",
"opening_date": "1971-02-19T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 445328,
"title": "Durer",
"description": "Durer. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 6-May 8, 1971).",
"opening_date": "1971-04-06T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 205194,
"title": "D\u00fcrer's Women: Images of Devotion and Desire",
"description": "D\u00fcrer's Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).",
"opening_date": "2014-06-22T00:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.",
"opening_date": "1996-02-20T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "(William H. Schab Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "?\u20131959",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1959\u2013",
"sortorder": 2
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"1959.110"
],
"did_you_know": null,
"description": "These eight woodcuts (1959.99.8-15) progress from Gabriel\u2019s announcement to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, to the events of her early motherhood and beyond. This included the joy of sharing her pregnancy with her cousin Elizabeth, Jesus\u2019s birth, and the subsequent arrival of the magi. After Jesus\u2019s circumcision and presentation at the temple the Holy Family fled to Egypt to avoid Herod and stayed there for several years. The seemingly out of place last scene shows a glimpse of their daily life in Egypt as Joseph continues his carpentry and Mary spins wool. The Holy Family is surrounded by angels and helpful putti and are blessed by God the Father and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove overhead.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18338569"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1959.99.12-the-adoration-of-the"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Du\u0308rer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 12; Plate XII",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n25"
},
{
"citation": "Richards, Louise. \"The Life of the Virgin.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (December 1959): 209.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: p. 208-209.",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142365"
},
{
"citation": "Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schro\u0308der, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 151, fig. 4",
"url": ""
}
],
"catalogue_raisonne": "Meder 199 b",
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.12",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.12/1959.99.12_web.jpg",
"width": "636",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "568653",
"filename": "1959.99.12_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.12/1959.99.12_print.jpg",
"width": "2420",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "7040812",
"filename": "1959.99.12_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.12/1959.99.12_full.tif",
"width": "3827",
"height": "5377",
"filesize": "61768760",
"filename": "1959.99.12_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [],
"creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 136176,
"creators": [
{
"id": 11617,
"description": "Albrecht D\u00fcrer (German, 1471\u20131528)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1471",
"death_year": "1528",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1959-04-25T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1501,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c. 1501\u20131503",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "component",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": "1959.99",
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"The Life of the Virgin: The Adoration of the Magi"
],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:10:15.525000"
}
}