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The Creation of Eve
Domenico Cunego (Italian, 1727–1803)
After: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian (Florentine), 1475–1564)
After: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian (Florentine), 1475–1564)
about 1767-1773
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 26 x 29.4 cm (10 1/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 21.2 x 23.8 cm (8 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 21.2 x 23.8 cm (8 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1117
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Not in Le Blanc
Marks
Recto, bottom right, on the bottom right corner of the platemark, the blindstamp of the Calcografia Camerale (Lugt 426e); verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
InscriptionsEngraved in the plate, top right, "No. 5."; engraved in the plate, bottom margin, "Dominicus Cunego del. et sculp. Romae / AEDIFICAVIT DOMINVS DEVS COSTAM QVAM TVLERAT DE ADAM IN MVLIEREM / Gen:C.II.Vers.22. / MICHAEL ANGELVS BONAROTIVS PINXIT IN SIXTINO VATICANO SACELLO / Romae Presso la Calcografia Camerale"
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA June 12, 1900