Adam and Eve at the Foot of the Cross, c. 1647

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 36.8 x 57 cm (14 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.)

sheet: 37 x 57.2 cm (14 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Montaiglon 1856, no. 27

Accession Number

2001.14.1

Artists / Makers

Claude Mellan (artist) French, 1598 - 1688

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist, lower left in rock: CMellan inven. et scul. cum pr. R.; by the artist, center in banner: IPSE ENIM EST PAX NOSTRA OVI FECIT VTRAQVE VNVM Eph. Cap. 2; by the artist, center on tablet: AVDI / ISRAEL / Diliges Dominum / Deum tuum / ex toto corde tuo / er in tota anima tua et / in tota mente tua.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Agos 6210 / A -1528-; by later hand lower right berso in graphite: 27 / DTHHCCIB 204

Provenance

F. Gawet, Vienna, 1826 (Lugt 1069). Johann Sigmund Bermann, Vienna, 1834 (Lugt 235). (sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 24 November 2000, no. 5171) (via David Tunick, New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2009: The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480 - 1650, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Mary adn Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009 - 2010, cat. by Emily J. Peters.

Bibliography

1856: Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856.

1988: Preaud, Maxime. Inventaire du fonds francais; graveurs du XVIIe siecle: Claude Mellan. Vol. 17. Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1988.