The Expulsion from Paradise

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The Expulsion from Paradise

1510

Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish (active Leiden), c. 1494–1533)

Albrecht Dürer's Netherlandish rival Lucas van Leyden was at least eighteen years his junior. In this engraving, Lucas uses the windblown trees and plants of the hostile landscape beyond the Garden of Eden to display his precocious skill with the burin. Though Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, was born after the expulsion from paradise, the artist depicts the infant in the arms of the fleeing couple.

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Object Details

Title:

The Expulsion from Paradise

Date:

1510

Artist:

Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish (active Leiden), c. 1494–1533)

Medium:

Engraving

Dimensions:

Sheet (cut within platemark): 6 7/16 × 4 13/16 inches (16.4 × 12.2 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-524

Geography:

Made in Leiden, Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century), Europe

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