Cleveland Museum of Art
Christ Disputing with Doctors
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- c. 1503–1504
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136180
From LinkedCulture
Albrecht Dürer packed an entire Renaissance interior into a single woodcut sheet, with a coffered arch, garlands, and a crowd of scholars all arranged to make one twelve-year-old boy the center of everything. Made around 1503 to 1504 in Germany, this print shows the young Christ behind a lectern, his radiant halo glowing against the shadowed vault, as learned figures lean over open books in debate. It belongs to Dürer's Life of the Virgin series, which stands among the most technically ambitious graphic works of the Northern Renaissance, rendered with cross-hatching so fine it rivals engraving.
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A group of people gathered inside a vaulted room with a central figure seated on a raised platform.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
These two woodcuts (1959.99.16-17) feature events that overlap in both Mary’s and Jesus’s lives. The first is a scene in which Mary finds Jesus, after days of searching, speaking from behind a lectern to the temple’s elders. The second refers to the the moment Mary was forced to say goodbye to her son as he leaves for Jerusalem and ultimately on to the events of his Passion. This print represents the most sorrowful episode of the series as Mary kneels, beseeching Jesus to stay.
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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
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