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The Creation of Eve, between late 16th and early 17th century

  • Dutch
  • Cornelis Cort, Netherlandish, 1533-1578
  • Matteo Florimi, Italian
  • Federico Zuccaro, Italian

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 17 1/4 × 12 1/8 inches (43.8 × 30.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S322

Inscribed, in plate, lower right of image: Matteo Florimi Formis Inscribed, in plate below image: [two line Latin inscription] Inscribed, in brown ink just below image, lower left: Zuchero

October 1884, (F. Keppel & Co.)

James E. Scripps

Mrs. James E. Scripps

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

de Haan, Bierens. J.C.J., L'Oeuvre Grave de Cornelis Cort. The Hague, 1948, pp. 35-36.

Dutch; after Cornelis Cort; after Federico Zuccaro, The Creation of Eve, between late 16th and early 17th century, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S322.