About the Artwork
Adam and Eve
between 1612 and 1648
Simone Cantarini
1612-1648
Italian
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Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 7 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (19.7 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 7/8 inches (20 × 17.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S228
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in ink, lower right corner: WE Inscribed, in pencil, verso: CBBrusaber Inscribed, in ink, verso: Cantarini | Bartsch V19-PIZZ- N. | WE - Sir MM Sykes's sale 1824 N 20 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Bernard Col. Inscribed, in black ink, verso: Epr. 1er
Watermark, center of sheet: [circle] Stamp, in black, verso: Carl F. Rhodin (Lugt 2179) Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Provenance
1787-1798, John Barnard;1824, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (Sledmere House et Settrington County of York, England);
1838 or 1840, William Esdaile (London, England);
1873, Carl Benjamin Brusaber (Hamburg, Germany);
Carl F. Rhodin (Altena, Germany);
Jan. 1885, H. Wunderlich Co.
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Simone Cantarini, Adam and Eve, between 1612 and 1648, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S228.
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