Standing Youth Holding a Club (recto); Temptation of Adam and Eve (verso)

Standing Youth Holding a Club (recto); Temptation of Adam and Eve (verso)

1440–60

Brush and gray wash, highlighted with brush and white gouache, on faded blue paper (recto); fragment of the Temptation of Adam and Eve in pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on blue paper that has not faded (verso)

And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tooke of the fruit thereof, and did eate, and gaue also vnto her husband with her, and hee did eate.
GENESIS 3:6 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

The Met · Creation / Adam and Eve in Eden · CC0 · Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880

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