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Eve Offering Adam the Forbidden Fruit
Possibly by: René Boyvin (French, c. 1525–c. 1580)
Possibly designed by: Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, 1493–1560)
Possibly designed by: Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, 1493–1560)
about 1540-1560
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10.8 × 13.6 cm (4 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
The Lloyd and Vivian Hawes Collection
Accession Number2000.716
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Nagler, Monogrammisten, vol. 1, p. 869, no. 2021 supp. 9; not in Robert-Dumesnil or IFF under Boyvin
Marks
Verso, bottom right, stamped in black ink, the mark of Jean Cantacuzène, Bucharest (1863-1934)(Lugt 4030); verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsIn plate LL: BR [monogram]
Later inscriptions or marks: Verso UR in graphite pencil: Robert Boissard / Le Valence 1590
Verso LL in graphite pencil: 3 [in a triangle over] B# [in a large “v”]
Verso LL in pen and brown ink: No 12
Verso LC in pen and brown ink: Leonard [crossed out & replaced by] Robert Boissard
Verso at bottom in graphite pencil: BR [monogram] Leonard Boivin graveur fec
Verso LR in graphite pencil: 1269. M-H.
Verso LR in pen and blue ink: 2707
Verso LR stamped in black ink-- mark of Jean Cantacuzène (Lugt 4030)
Verso LR stamped in purple ink (washed out)-- mark of Thomas Banks, Lugt 2423
Later inscriptions or marks: Verso UR in graphite pencil: Robert Boissard / Le Valence 1590
Verso LL in graphite pencil: 3 [in a triangle over] B# [in a large “v”]
Verso LL in pen and brown ink: No 12
Verso LC in pen and brown ink: Leonard [crossed out & replaced by] Robert Boissard
Verso at bottom in graphite pencil: BR [monogram] Leonard Boivin graveur fec
Verso LR in graphite pencil: 1269. M-H.
Verso LR in pen and blue ink: 2707
Verso LR stamped in black ink-- mark of Jean Cantacuzène (Lugt 4030)
Verso LR stamped in purple ink (washed out)-- mark of Thomas Banks, Lugt 2423
ProvenanceThomas Banks (1735-1805, London, Lugt 2423); unidentified collector [marked JC in a circle, similar to Lugt 1429, Jefferson Coolidge, Boston, but with larger letters]; Lloyd and Vivian Hawes, Wellesley, MA; her bequest to MFA, June 2000.