REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam) |
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Adam and Eve1638Etching, second state of two, 162 x 116 mm Teylers Museum, Haarlem | |
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Catalogue number: Bartsch 28. In this etching Rembrandt depicts Adam and Eve in an encounter with a serpent that seems to personify the Evil. In contrast to Gospel subjects, which he invested with an air of the miraculous, Rembrandt often treated Old Testament events in a down-to-earth manner, as ordinary episodes from human history. Adam and Eve's naturally imperfect bodies may have been borrowed from the beggars he often sketched in the poor quarters of Leiden. | |
