Adam and Eve
1638
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 16 x 11.7 cm (6 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.7102
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 28, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Siegfried Barden (Lugt 218); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930.
Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.
1932
Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.
1956
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1956-1957.
1961
Rembrandt's Etchings, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1962.
1965
The Old Testament in Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965.
1969
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 39, 42, repro.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 73, repro.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
1923
Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.
1969
White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.
1990
Russell 1990, cat.no.73.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 168, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Rembrandt. f. 1638.
Wikidata ID
Q65024530