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Adam and Eve

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1638

Provenance

Ownership history

Adolf Schwartz, Amstelveen, Holland [invoice]. Sold by Robert Light, Santa Barbara, Calif., to the Art Institute, 1987.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-February 9, 1989 (Allerton gallery 209A).
The Art Institute of Chicago, February 14, 2004-May 9, 2004.

Literature

Daniel Daulby, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Rembrandt (Liverpool, 1796), p. 15, no. 29.
M. le chev. de Claussin, Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'œuvre de Rembrandt (Paris, 1824), p. 22, no. 34.
Thomas Wilson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Prints of Rembrandt (London, 1836), p. 46, no. 35.
Charles Blanc, L'œuvre de Rembrandt (Paris, 1880), pp. 55-57, no. 1.
Woldemar von Seidlitz, Die Radierungen Rembrandts (Leipzig, 1922), pp. 40-41 (ill.).
Arthur M. Hind, A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings, 2 vols. (London, 1923), I:83, II:pl. 159.
Ludwig Münz, Rembrandt's Etchings , 2 vols. (London, 1952), I:pl. 197, II:87, no. 177.
George Biörklund, Rembrandt's Etchings: True and False (Stockholm, 1955), p. 70, no 38D (ill.).
Karel G. Boon, Rembrandt: The Complete Etchings, trans. by Elizabeth Willems-Treeman (New York, 1963), pl. 140.
G. W. Nowell-Usticke, Rembrandt's Etchings: States and Values (Narberth, Pa. 1967), n.p., no. B28 (ill.).
Christopher White, Rembrandt as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work, 2 vols. (London, 1969), II: 248, pl. 35.
Christopher White and Karel G. Boon, Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue, 2 vols. (Amsterdam, 1977), I: 13, no. 28, II:17 (ill.).

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