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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

not on view

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.

Exhibition history

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

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; August 17-November 9, 2003. "Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection". No exhbition catalogue.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/22/2014 - 9/28/2014); "Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion & Desire"

Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).

I and Thou. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 21-May 27, 1984).

Albrecht Dürer and His Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 10, 1991).

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