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Joachim and the Angel

The Life of the Virgin

Joachim and the Angel

c. 1504

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Albrecht Dürer

(German, 1471–1528)

Germany, early 16th Century

Woodcut

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.3

Catalogue raisonné: Meder 190

Location

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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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Collection: 
PR - Woodcut
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print
Medium: 
Woodcut
Credit line: 
Dudley P. Allen Fund

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