drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5226.100
- Description
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The Temptation of Man; Eve reclining naked against a rock at right and holding an apple, a serpent coiled around the the Tree of Knowledge at left; a dog and a cat in the foreground; after Jan Saenredam who engraved after Hendrick Goltzius
Black chalk, heightened with white, on buff-tinted paper (heavily oil-stained)
No Watermark.
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 174 millimetres
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Width: 135 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The seet seems cut at left.
This a copy in the same direction (with variations) after the engraving by Jan Saenredam (see D,5.167), who copied a design by Goltzius, see 1895,0915.1019. The figure of Adam has been left out of this composition. The serpent is here depicted without a human head and Eve's arm is raised towards her mount.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5226.100
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,07.100
