print
- Museum number
- 1877,0609.107
- Title
- Series: Life of the Virgin
- Description
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Plate 1: Gothic ornamental framework inset with two arched scenes below and two roundels above; lower left, Christ among the doctors; lower right, Wedding of Canaan; top left, Joachim's sacrifice being refused; top right, the angel of the Annunciation appearing to Joachim. 1507
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1507
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 248 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of seven woodcuts showing the life of the Virgin by Oostsanen (Hollstein 83-89), for other plates see also 1919,0616.55-56. The fourth woodcut is unrecorded. They were probably meant to be mounted as an almost two-metre long frieze to decorate the walls of monasteries, abbeys and perhaps large buildings and schools. They are the earliest signed and dated works by Oostsanen. The seven woodcuts contain twenty-seven religious scenes, divided in two registers which tell a narrative story when seen as a frieze.
Literature: D. Meuwissen, 'Het Marialeven: De vroegste prentenreeks van Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (ca.1470-1533)', in Desipientia 19 (2012), pp.38-44; H. Leeflang, in Daantje Meeuwissen (ed.), 'Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (ca.1475-1533): De Renaissance in Amsterdam en Alkmaar', exh.cat. Amsterdam Museum and Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Zwolle, 2014, cat.no. 2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2014 Mar-Jun, Alkmaar, Stedelijk Museum, Van Oostsanen (1470-1533): Early Dutch Masters,
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0609.107
