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The Creation of Adam

Gasparo Ruina (Italian, active about 1533)
After: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian (Florentine), 1475–1564)
about 1533

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Sheet: 35.2 x 51.9 cm (13 7/8 x 20 7/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1975.534
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints
This print exists in two states. This state, apparently the earlier one, is before the changes to Adam's nose and his left hand. For an impression of the other state, see 1975.535.

Catalogue Raisonné Le Blanc 1
Marks Verso, bottom center, in brown ink, the duplicate stamp of the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g); verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (Lugt 3593)
ProvenanceAlbertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975