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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R3608
People
Laurent Cars, French (Lyon 1699 - 1771 Paris)
After François Le Moyne, French (Paris, France 1688 - 1737 Paris, France)
Title
Adam and Eve Eating the Forbidden Fruit
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1755
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/239143

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 36.5 × 26.8 cm (14 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 40.2 × 26.8 cm (15 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: JWR:"Adam & Eve"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. III, no. 137, p. 500; Le Blanc 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R3608
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 120, 498-n.3

Verification Level

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