Adam en Eva treuren om de dood van Abel, Jan Saenredam, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1604

Title(s)

Adam en Eva treuren om de dood van Abel
Adam en Eva (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

6/6

Object number

RP-P-H-M-9

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 6-1(3)
• Roethlisberger 77

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘5’
• collector's mark: Lugt 11
• collector's mark: Lugt 10

Description

Adam en Eva vinden de dode Abel bij de offerplaats. Beiden zitten op hun knieën voor het lijk van hun zoon en treuren. Op de achtergrond het offer van Abel en Kaïn en de moord op Abel.

Artist

• print maker: Jan Saenredam (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Abraham Bloemaert (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jan Saenredam
• Theodorus Schrevelius (mentioned on object)

Place

Assendelft

Dating

1604

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 279 mm × width 200 mm

What

• Adam and Eve discover the dead body of Abel and grieve over it
• the killing of Abel: Cain slays him with a stone, a club or a jaw-bone, alternatively with a spade or another tool as weapon

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Marcel George, 1929-2020 Roethlisberger, dl. 1, p. 125 (afb. 132), cat.nr. 77
• Jan Saenredam to Roelandt Savery, George Shepard Keyes, p. 8, cat.nr. 6