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Adam and Eve Mourning the Death of Abel (from the series The Story of Adam and Eve)
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
1529
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.3 × 11.6 cm (6 7/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession NumberM28413
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 006; Hollstein 6 (I/III); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 6 (Ib/III)
State
I/III
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, upper center: 1529/L [in reverse]
Marks
Watermark: jug (see Filedt Kok, New Hollstein, p. 291, no. 3d); verso, collector's stamp in black ink: [crown over A within a circle; Earl of Aylesford, Lugt 58]; collector's stamp in black ink: P. Davidsohn [Lugt 654]; in graphite: B.6.; [?]; in red pencil: 5
ProvenanceHeneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (b. 1786 - d. 1859; Lugt 58), London and Packington Hall. Paul Davidsohn (b. 1839 - d. 1924?; Lugt 654), London, Vienna, and Berlin; November 22-26, 1920, his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, part of lot 1045, to P. & D. Colnaghi (dealer), London; January, 1921, purchased from Colnaghi by the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1921)