Eve Giving Adam the Forbidden Fruit; from "The Story of Adam and Eve"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11 x 7 15/16 in. (27.9 x 20.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.602
Tags
FruitAdamEve
About the Artist
Abraham Bloemaert|Jan (Pietersz.) Saenredam · 1566–1651
Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651) was born in Gorinchem in the Dutch Republic, the son of architect Cornelis Bloemaert, and grew up in Utrecht after the family relocated there in 1575. His early artistic formation took him to Paris for three years in the early 1580s, where he studied with several masters before returning to the Northern Netherlands to pursue his career. He settled permanently in Utrec...