Skip to main content
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: Adam and Eve in paradise

Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck

Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: Adam and Eve in paradise

1659-1669

Scroll

Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: Adam and Eve in paradise

1659-1669

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 256 x 312 mm. (10 1/16 x 12 5/16 in.) Plate: 225 x 254 mm. (8 7/8 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.3770

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Below image: "Connubio jungam stabili propriamq3 [abbr.] dicabo. / Per Gerardum de Lairesse invent: et Sculp: et Per Nicolaum Visscher edit: cum Privil: Ord: Gener: Belgii Fæderati." Lower left corner: "45" Lower right corner: "1 / G. Valk ex." Beneath plate mark at left in graphite: "LB 1 a 6"

Markings: None

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

1640–1710

Dutch, 1641 - 1711
Meet Gerard de Lairesse

Publisher

Gerard Valck

1650–1725

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726
Meet Gerard Valck

Explore the Collection Further

Gerard Valck, Gerard de Lairesse, and others
Mercury Ordering Calypso to Allow Odysseus to Depart
1669–1699
Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
1659–1669
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, and others
Man with a Torch near a Sarcophagus
1664–1745
Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: original sin
1659–1669
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, and others
Silenus Pulled out of the Water
1664–1745
Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: the sacrifices of Abel and Cain
1659–1669
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, and others
Five Putti Dancing to the Music of a Triangle
1664–1745
Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: Cain murders Abel
1659–1669
Abraham Blooteling, Gerard de Lairesse, and others
Children playing in a garden, with grapes and a statue
1664–1694
Gerard de Lairesse, Gerard Valck, and others
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: the Remorse of Cain
1659–1669
Abraham Blooteling, Gerard de Lairesse, and others
Children playing with musical instruments and a dog
1664–1694
Gerard de Lairesse and Gerard Valck
Seven illustrations from the book of Genesis: Sara threatening Ishmael
1659–1669