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