About the Artwork
Cain and Abel's Offering and the Death of Abel
between 1566 and 1624
Francesco Villamena (Artist) Italian, 1566-1624 After Raphael (Artist) Italian, 1483-1520
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 3 3/4 × 10 3/8 inches (9.5 × 26.4 cm) Sheet: 4 1/2 × 10 3/4 inches (11.4 × 27.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1193
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower center: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate below image, lower center: Deus reiectis Cain muneribus: Abel dona suscipit. Abel a Cain interficitur Genes. IV. Inscribed, lower right corner: 9
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1883 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)]
Provenance
October 1883, F. Keppel & Co.1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Francesco Villamena; after Raphael, Cain and Abel's Offering and the Death of Abel, between 1566 and 1624, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1193.
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