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Marriage of Adam and Eve

1555

Jean Duvet

(French, 1485–1561)
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Culture
France
Medium
engraving
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.213.4
Catalogue raisonné
Eisler 35
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101B Prints & Drawings
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Jean Duvet, a metalworker from Dijon in eastern France, served as the royal goldsmith to Kings Francois I and Henri II of France. He may have traveled to Italy in the 1510s but mostly remained isolated from other engravers. Accordingly, he borrowed heavily from engravings he must have owned, developing an eccentric, ornamental style with crowded compositions that ignore logical space. Here, he adapted Adam from Albrecht Dürer’s engraving of Adam and Eve, creating a scene of the marriage of Adam and Eve, the first humans in the biblical book of Genesis, before God and angels.
A vertically oriented engraving with an arched top in black ink depicts the marriage of Adam and Eve. Centrally, an older bearded man in ornate robes joins the hands of the nude couple. Adam stands on the left and Eve on the right. Above them sits a fruit-laden tree and a Latin inscription. A dense crowd of people fills the background, while a winged dragon lies at the bottom near Eve’s feet.

Marriage of Adam and Eve

1555

Jean Duvet

(French, 1485–1561)
France

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