id:			136184
accession number:	1959.99.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.2
updated:		2022-03-04 10:00:29.891000

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
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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 189

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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:		Albrecht Dürer and His Influence
	opening date:   1991-01-16T05:00:00
	<i>Albrecht Dürer and His Influence</i>. 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
	<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: 
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.
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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. 2; Plate II
	url:		https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n5

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