Adam and Eve

Jacopo della Quercia (in circa 1850-1899)

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Specifications

Title	Adam and Eve
Material and technique	Pen and brown ink
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 252 mm Width 143 mm
Artists	Forgery after: Jacopo della Quercia
Accession number	I 257 recto (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1850-1899
Inscriptions	'Jacopo della Querce' (recto, upper left, pen and brown ink)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	E. Rossi (L.4091), F.W. Koenigs (L.1023a)
Provenance	Egisto Rossi (forger, 1824/25-1899, L.4091), Florence; - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1928; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Material	Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Rosie Razzall

This drawing bears a collector’s mark in blue ink at the top right corner (L.4091) that has been identified as a false mark belonging to the Florentine dealer and forger of drawings, Egisto Rossi (1824/1825-1899).^[1]It is therefore likely that this sheet is a forged drawing in the manner of the Sienese sculptor Jacopo della Quercia, an artist for whom very few known drawings exist.^[2]The subject may have been taken from the stone reliefs depicting Adam and Eve produced by Della Quercia for the church of San Petronio in Bologna between 1425-28. The style of draughtsmanship, with long, sparse lines of the pen, has some similarity with a drawing in Florence,^[3]a sheet with which Rossi may have been familiar. The figures have been traced through by the same hand on the verso.

Footnotes

^[1]See Lugt online database of collector’s marks: http://www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/11605.

^[2]The most well-known examples are studies for the Fonte Gaia in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. Dyce Dyce 181 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 49.141.

^[3]Gallerie degli Uffizi, inv. 43E.

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