Cleveland Museum of Art

Joachim and the Angel

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5

Date: c. 1504
Medium: woodcut
Culture: Germany, early 16th Century
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 136186

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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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Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance: ?–1959: (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1959–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH