Christ as a Gardener appearing to Mary Magdalene
Artist
Lucas van Leyden
(Netherlandish, ca. 1494 - 1533)
Date1519
MediumEngraving
DimensionsOverall: 5 3/8 × 6 9/16 inches (13.64 × 16.66 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-74/8
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History
The
Sixth Annual Exhibition of Engravings, Woodcuts, Etchings of the XV and XVI
Centuries, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, February
5-March 8, 1930, no. 137.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 3-October 7, 2007, no cat.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 8, 2013, no cat.
Following his resurrection from the dead, Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene, who mistook him for a gardener. When she recognized him, he forbade her to touch him, as he had not yet ascended to heaven. The artist deviates from the traditional version of this story by showing Jesus blessing his disciple rather than pulling away. Their meeting takes place in front of a rocky outcropping that leads the eye to a view of a city. The fine and shallow lines used to render this distant scene contribute to the illusion of depth.
With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1930;
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
Catalogue of the Sixth Annual Exhibition of Engravings, Woodcuts, Etchings of the XV and XVI Centuries (New York: M. Knoedler, 1930), 144, (repro.).
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 275.
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