Artist Simone Cantarini, Italian, 1612-1648
Title
  • Adam and Eve
Date between 1612 and 1648
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 7 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (19.7 × 17.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 7/8 inches (20 × 17.5 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S228
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Watermark, center of sheet: [circle]
Stamp, in black, verso: Carl F. Rhodin (Lugt 2179)
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in ink, lower right corner: WE
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: CBBrusaber
Inscribed, in ink, verso: Cantarini | Bartsch V19-PIZZ- N. | WE - Sir MM Sykes's sale 1824 N 20
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Bernard Col.
Inscribed, in black ink, verso: Epr. 1er
1787-1798, John Barnard;
1824, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (Sledmere House et Settrington County of York, England);
1838 or 1840, William Esdaile (London, England);
1873, Carl Benjamin Brusaber (Hamburg, Germany);
Carl F. Rhodin (Altena, Germany);
Jan. 1885, H. Wunderlich Co.
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)