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Albrecht Dürer

The Virgin and Child with a Monkey

c. 1498
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The monkey portrayed here can be identified as a Barbary macaque, which the artist may have seen as part of a zoological collection in Germany.

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