id:			136181
accession number:	1959.99.17
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.17
updated:		2022-03-04 10:00:29.397000

The Life of the Virgin: Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, c. 1504-1505. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.17

title:				Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
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series:				The Life of the Virgin
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creation date:			c. 1504-1505
creation date earliest:		1504
creation date latest:		1505
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Germany, early 16th Century
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Meder 204 a

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CREATORS

* Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary
	opening date:   1971-02-19T05:00:00
	<i>Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).

	title:		Durer
	opening date:   1971-04-06T05:00:00
	<i>Durer</i>. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 6-May 8, 1971).

	title:		Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire
	opening date:   2014-06-22T00:00:00
	<i>Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
These two woodcuts (1959.99.16-17) feature events that overlap in both Mary’s and Jesus’s lives. The first is a scene in which Mary finds Jesus, after days of searching, speaking from behind a lectern to the temple’s elders. The second refers to the the moment Mary was forced to say goodbye to her son as he leaves for Jerusalem and ultimately on to the events of his Passion. This print represents the most sorrowful episode of the series as Mary kneels, beseeching Jesus to stay.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Dürer, Albrecht. <em>The Life of the Virgin</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 17
	url:		https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n35

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