Adam and Eve
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
1638
Etching on laid paper
Overall: 6 7/16 × 4 5/8 in. (16.3 × 11.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.88
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: Rembrandt. f. 1638.; stamped, on verso: SAMLUNG HEBICH HAMBURG (L. 1250); inscribed, on verso, in black ink: Hekimi (?)
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Katie Hornstein, Jane Carroll, Winter 2013
ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Katie Hornstein, Jane Carroll, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, 28, 74, Printmaking I-Intaglio, II, III, Ariel Frieberg, Spring 2015
ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
A Space for Dialogue 44, Femme Fatales, Changing Conceptions of the Dangerous Female in the Male Imagination, Marissa Slany, Class of 2008, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-May 11, 2008.
Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Sara E. Trautz, Class of 2015, Mellon Special Project Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 21, 2014.
Cultural Exchange, the Body, and Art and Technology, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-March 9, 2003.
Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, July 1-August 28, 1994, no. 114.
Envisioning Jerusalem: Prints from Durer to Rembrandt, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 9-June 19, 2011.
Flesh and Desire [curated by Art History II Professors Jane Carroll and Katie Hornstein], Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth Collection January 7-March 4, 2013.
Rembrandt: Master of Light and Shadow; Etchings from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 8-September 17, 2006.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
Undressed: The Nude in Context, 1500-1750, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 9-June 16, 2019.
With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 46, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 28-December 17, 2000.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, ill. p.112, listed, p.111, no. 229.
Stacey Sell, Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, p.24, fig. 29; p. 52, no. 114.
Rembrandt Prints in the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 4.
Marissa Slany, A Space for Dialogue #44, Femme Fatales, Changing Conceptions of the Dangerous Female in the Male Imagination, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 1.
John V. Kulvicki, On Images: Their Structure and Content, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 258 pp., ill. p. 138.
Sara E. Trautz, Creating the Feminine: Representations of Biblical Women from Sixteenth-Century Germany, A Space for Dialogue 85, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 2.
Provenance
Johann Carl Diedrich Hebich, Hamburg 1818-1891; sold H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, November 15-16, 1880; David Tunick, Inc.; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on July 16, 1990; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
New Hollstein (NHD) 168 ii/ii; Bartsch and Hollstein 28; New Hollstein 168; Hind 159
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