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Object Number

G4912

People

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

Adam and Eve

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1638

Culture

Dutch

Medium

Etching on off-white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 16.2 × 11.6 cm (6 3/8 × 4 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower margin: Rembrandt . f. 1638.
• collector's mark: verso, black stamp: GALICHON [within an oval borderline; Emile Galichon (Lugt 1058)]
• collector's mark: verso, gray stamp: Q. A. O. [within an oblong borderline; Alexandre Borisovitch Lobanoff-Rostovsky (Lugt 2005)]
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbers within: [Gray Collection accesion stamp (Lugt 4836)] 4912
• inscription: verso, graphite: B 28
• watermark: [partial illegible watermark, laid paper of 17th c. type]

State

ii/ii

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 168, Bartsch 28, Hind 159, Rovinski 28

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund

Object Number

G4912

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist

Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006

Adam and Eve, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019

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