id: 136184 accession number: 1959.99.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.2 updated: 2020-11-04 20:47:22.208000 The Life of the Virgin: Joachim's Offering Rejected by the High Priest, c. 1504-1505. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.2 title: Joachim's Offering Rejected by the High Priest 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 189 --- 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: Albrecht Dürer and His Influence opening date: 1991-01-16T05:00:00 Albrecht Dürer and His Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 10, 1991). 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: The first three woodcuts of Dürer’s narrative (1959.99.2-4) portray the events leading up to the Virgin’s birth. According to an apocryphal text, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, had remained childless into old age. After Joachim’s offering at the temple was rejected for this reason, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the wilderness to announce that his wife would soon bear a child. At this news, the two tenderly embraced at the city’s gate. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.2/1959.99.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.2/1959.99.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99.2/1959.99.2_full.tif