The Virgin and Child with a Monkey
Cleveland Museum of Art

The Virgin and Child with a Monkey

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) · c. 1498

engraving
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

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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