Sixth Day: The Creation of the Animals, Adam and Eve, from The Creation to the Expulsion from Paradise
c. 1610
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 13.6 × 12.6 cm (5 3/8 × 5 in.); sheet: 14.6 × 13.3 cm (5 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268093
Art Historical Context
Step into the vivid world of Nicolaes deyn's *Sixth Day: The of the Animals, Adam Eve*, an exquisite engraving from around 1610. This intimate print, part of a larger series Genesis from *The Creation to the Exp from Paradise*, captures the moment when God populates the earth with creatures on the sixth day, alongside the formation of Adam and Eve. just 13.6 × 12.6 cm on the plate, its compact scale invites close contemplation, much like a treasured illuminated page. De Bruyn, a skilled Flemish engraver active in the early 17th century, masterfully employs the engraving technique—incising lin...
About the Artist
Nicolaes de Bruyn · 1571–1656
Nicolaes de Bruyn was a Flemish printmaker born in Antwerp in 1571, active during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and known primarily for his large, elaborately detailed engravings of landscapes, hunting scenes, and biblical and mythological subjects. He trained in the tradition of Flemish reproductive engraving and was deeply influenced by the work of his contemporaries and pre...