# Christ Taking Leave of his Mother

- By: Cornelis Engebrechtsz (Leiden, ca. –1527)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-1719--8c222da32134c49cba0ab40bc3661aed)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/5afcdc879d8a3d767fc14226139a2817.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.