Adam spittend en Eva spinnend (de geschiedenis van de eerste ouders van de mens)

Adam spittend en Eva spinnend (de geschiedenis van de eerste ouders van de mens)

<p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">In this suite of engravings, the Utrecht-based painter Abraham Bloemaert has depicted various key scenes from the Book of Genesis. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve live in harmony with each other, the world and nature. Here they are protected from mortality, work and knowledge. After the Fall, they have to take care of their own garden and shape their own world. Bloemaert makes that transition very clear. Under a stormy sky, the couple is expelled from the lush, sunny garden, into a rugged landscape, where Adam is shown digging and Eve spinning wool. Bloemaert thus emphasises the link between the expulsion from Paradise and the need to perform hard labour. The Garden of Eden is thus linked to the dawn of human history.</span></p>

In this suite of engravings, the Utrecht-based painter Abraham Bloemaert has depicted various key scenes from the Book of Genesis. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve live in harmony with each other, the world and nature. Here they are protected from mortality, work and knowledge. After the Fall, they have to take care of their own garden and shape their own world. Bloemaert makes that transition very clear. Under a stormy sky, the couple is expelled from the lush, sunny garden, into a rugged landscape, where Adam is shown digging and Eve spinning wool. Bloemaert thus emphasises the link between the expulsion from Paradise and the need to perform hard labour. The Garden of Eden is thus linked to the dawn of human history.

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Title

Adam spittend en Eva spinnend (de geschiedenis van de eerste ouders van de mens)

Artist

Abraham Bloemaert (ontwerper) (Gorinchem 1566 - 1651 Utrecht)

Jan Saenredam (graveur) (Zaandam 1565 - 1607 Assendelft)

Dating

1604 - 1604

Material and technique

gravure; gravure (1e staat); gegraveerd

Object number

12736

Object type

prent, gravure

Acquisition

aankoop 1960

Dimensions

hoogte (blad) 27.9 cm

breedte (blad) 19.8 cm

Inscriptions and markings

  • signatuur en opschrift l.o. in beeld : A. Bloemaert in. // J. Saenredam sculp. 5

  • onderschrift l.o. beeld : Horrida iam dumis tellus, et decolor aetas // Stramineas habitare casa, et figrere cervos

  • onderschrift r.o. beeld : Suadebat, terramque rudi tentare ligone, // Longaque versato diffundere stamina fuso

What

(herkomst) afkomstig van Coll. Rev. G. Burgleigh James

More of the same motif

bijbelse voorstelling, Adam en Eva, werkend

Remarks

Nr. 5 uit een serie van 6 gravures (inv. nrs. 12730, 12731, 12732, 12734, 12736 en 12738) voorstellende "De Geschiedenis van onze eerste ouders"

zie ook inv. nr. 12737: spiegelbeeldige kopie naar deze gravure, uitgegeven door Marcus Sadeler

Documentation

  • 125 jaar Centraal Museum Utrecht, [inl. en tekst Maria Elisabeth Houtzager], (Utrecht, 1964), cat. nr. 69, afb. 43

  • Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Marcel G. Roethlisberger, Marten Jan Bok, (Doornspijk, 1993), dl. I, cat. nr. 76; dl. II, afb. 131

  • De landman en de Muze, (Haarlem, 1965), cat. nr. 89

Exhibitions

  • De botanische revolutie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2021 - 2022

  • Krassen en strepen, tekeningen en prenten Oude Kunst uit eigen bezit, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1997

  • Het Huis van Bloemaert, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1996

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.B44CE977-AE8B-41DB-A631-5255094B3977

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