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Adam and Eve
Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-7924f2657395
- Date
- 1638
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 70019
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's etching of Adam and Eve , depicts the story of the first Man and Woman with descriptive, wiry lines that create an evocative atmosphere. Shown at the moment of temptation, the couple is surrounded by light that seems about to be blotted out by the dark tree branch and leering serpent (the devil) stretching ominously above them. With their fleshy bodies and ordinary faces (so far removed from Dürer's idealized pair), Rembrandt's Adam and Eve are easy to identify with; their confusion, temptation, and choice become ours.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Marjorie Blum Kovler Foundation Collection and the Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation Collection
- Provenance
- Adolf Schwartz, Amstelveen, Holland [invoice]. Sold by Robert Light, Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Art Institute, 1987.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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