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Adam and Eve, seated on a rock, with a serpent coiled around a tree at left and a lion and a lamb at right

Carlo Cignani | Jean Antoine Pierron | F. Chardon, Ainé | François Dubois

1803–09

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Image: 13 3/4 × 8 15/16 in. (34.9 × 22.7 cm) Sheet: 16 3/16 × 10 1/8 in. (41.1 × 25.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Carlo Cignani

1628–1719 • Papal States

Painter who continued the tradition of Bolognese classicism into the 18th century. He became the first president of the Accademia Clementina in 1711. His style is similar to that of Guido Reni. Comment on works: Mythology; Religious.

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