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Christ Taking Leave of his Mother
Also titled Jezus neemt afscheid van Maria
Cornelis Engebrechtsz (Leiden, ca. –1527)
c. 1515 - c. 1520
- Medium
- wood (plant material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 63.7 cm x width 53.5 cm x thickness 4.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This panel and the painting next to it formed part of a series of scenes from the life of the Virgin. Here we see Christ taking leave of his mother, in spite of her pleading with him not to go to Jerusalem.
