GOSSART, Jan
(b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg)

Adam and Eve

c. 1520
Pen and ink, brush and ink, and white gouache, on blue-gray prepared paper, 348 x 239 mm
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth

In addition to some exceptional paintings, Gossart experimented with the subject of the Fall of Man on paper, to. The present drawing was partly derived from a woodcut by Hans Baldung Grien, to whom this drawing was formerly attributed.