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DÜRER Albrecht — Christ taking leave of his mother

Albrecht DÜRER

1471 - 1528

Christ taking leave of his mother

Circa 1504
Plate 16 from a series of twenty subjects and a title plate entitled The Life of the Virgin
Original woodcut
299 × 207 mm, timmed on the border line
Fine impression from the Latin edition of 1511 with text on the reverse, small spots on the right-hand side of the subject and on the Virgin’s drapery. On the reverse, annotations in pen and brown ink in Latin
Watermark: Tower surmounted by a crown and a flower (Meder fil. 259)
Reference: Meder 204, Bartsch 92

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