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Originally this exquisite sheet belonged to a series of 21 drawings by the Antwerp artist Jan Wierix illustrating the creation and early history of man as recounted in Genesis. In this scene, an angel casts Adam and Eve out of paradise for their transgressions. Precious in its delicate pen strokes and careful detail, the drawing describes Eden as a microcosm populated by an array of animals whose tranquility is in the midst of being interrupted by human actions. Pen and ink drawings on vellum such as this were prized by collectors, who valued them as miniature paintings to be displayed in albums and sometimes framed on the wall.
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157290
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The Expulsion from Paradise
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157290
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drawing
title
The Expulsion from Paradise
description
Originally this exquisite sheet belonged to a series of 21 drawings by the Antwerp artist Jan Wierix illustrating the creation and early history of man as recounted in Genesis. In this scene, an angel casts Adam and Eve out of paradise for their transgressions. Precious in its delicate pen strokes and careful detail, the drawing describes Eden as a microcosm populated by an array of animals whose tranquility is in the midst of being interrupted by human actions. Pen and ink drawings on vellum such as this were prized by collectors, who valued them as miniature paintings to be displayed in albums and sometimes framed on the wall.
date
c. 1606
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en
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Q79973350
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Sheet: 9.5 x 12.4 cm (3 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.); Image: 9 x 11.9 cm (3 9/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
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Flanders
accession
1994.16
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Pen and brown ink on parchment
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The Expulsion from Paradise, c. 1606. Jan Wierix (Flemish, c. 1549–after 1615). Pen and brown ink on parchment; sheet: 9.5 x 12.4 cm (3 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.); image: 9 x 11.9 cm (3 9/16 x 4 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1994.16
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vellum
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DR - Flemish
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower left, in brown ink: Iohan wiricx inue [abbreviation line over "u" and "e"]; verso, lower left, in graphite: No ["o" with double underlines]
didYouKnow
This artist's version of the Garden of Eden includes a turkey, a bird that was unknown in Europe until the 16th century, when it was imported from the Americas.
citations
citation
Van de Velde, Carl. Jan Wierix: The Creation and the Early History of Man : 1607-1608. New York: Richard L. Feigen, 1990.
page_number
no. 10a, p. 39
citation
Bellinger, Katrin and Harald Weinhold. <em>Jan Wierix, 1549-Antwerp-1620: Nine Drawings from the Creation and the Early History of Man.</em> München: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, 1993.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 7
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 70, pp. 172-73, pp. 293-94; Reproduced: p. 173
citation
Ruyven-Zeman, Zsuzsanna van. "Stucksken met de penne": Drawings by the Engraver Johannes Wierix," Master Drawings 42:3 (Autumn, 2004): pp.237-257.
page_number
p. 254, note 30.
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. “Imaging the Garden: The garden is a ground plot for the mind. —Thomas Hill, <em>The Gardener’s Labyrinth</em> (1577).” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 4-6.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 6; Mentioned: p. 4
citation
Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 174-176, no. 44
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 08:11:28.010000
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157290
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Pen and brown ink on parchment
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