The Expulsion of Adam and Eve with an angel wielding a sword behind them
Medium
Engraving (reverse copy)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 6 1/8 in. (21.5 × 15.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.1164
Tags
About the Artist
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Antonio Caranzano|Polidoro da Caravaggio · 1553–1615
Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also known by his birth name Zaccaria Mattia, was an Italian engraver and painter active in Rome during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany, he came from an artistically inclined family and received training that equipped him for work in both painting and the reproductive graphic arts. It was as a printmaker, however,...