Rembrandt van Rijn
Adam and Eve

CultureDutch
Titles
  • Adam and Eve
Date1638
Made inNetherlands
MediumEtching on laid paper, state II/II
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (16.5 × 11.7 cm)
Mount: 8 3/4 × 7 in. (22.2 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Museum Collectors, and the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2012.261
Not on view

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ProvenanceCharles Delanglade (b. 1870), Marseille (Lugt 661); [Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt, by 2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and dated in printed ink, in plate, lower center: Rembrandt • f • 1638 •
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, left bottom edge: [illegible and partially removed]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, right bottom edge: (??) 16829
Recto: Signed and dated in printed ink, in plate, lower center: Rembrandt • f • 1638 •
Verso: Stamp in purple ink, left top edge: [Partial circle]
Verso: Stamp in ink, left bottom edge: C. Delanglade [encircled]
Catalogue raisonnéBartsch, Rovinski, Seidlitz and White-Boon 28/II; Hind 159/II; Biörklund-Barnard 38-D/II

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