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 title in original language: series: The Life of the Virgin series in original language: creation date: c. 1504-1505 creation date earliest: 1504 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, early 16th Century technique: woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Meder 204 a --- CREATORS * Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary opening date: 1971-02-19T05:00:00 Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971). title: Durer opening date: 1971-04-06T05:00:00 Durer. 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 Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Dürer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 17 url: https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n35 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.17/1959.99.17_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.17/1959.99.17_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.17/1959.99.17_full.tif