Adam and Eve, Rembrandt van Rijn | Mia

Adam and Eve, Rembrandt van Rijn — Adam and Eve, 1638
Rembrandt van Rijn
Etching
The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916 P.1,233
Not on View
Rembrandt's insistent realism displeased seventeenth-century critics, who preferred classical nudes and the soft, fleshy bodies of Peter Paul Rubens. One critic snipped that Rembrandt chose as his models "a peat stamper or washergirl from the barn." Brilliantly, he lit his naturalistic Adam and Eve from behind, with reflected light from the distant Eden, where an elephant ambles along, unaware of the scowling pair. The devil is borrowed from an Albrecht Dürer engraving; Rembrandt had acquired a large group of Dürer prints at auction the same year he made this etching.

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Title: Adam and Eve
Dated: 1638
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Nationality: Dutch
Artist Life: 1606 - 1669
Role: Artist
Gallery: Not on View
Department: European Art
Dimension: 6 7/16 x 4 5/8 in. (16.3 x 11.7 cm) (plate)
Credit: The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
Accession Number: P.1,233
Medium: Etching
Country: The Netherlands
Century: 17th century
Rights: Public Domain
Classification: Prints
Object Name: Print
Catalogue Raisonne: Hind 159 ii/ii; B.28; Mz.177 ii/ii; Holl. 28 ii/ii; B-B.38-D ii/ii
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