Adam and Eve, Pieter Xaveri, 1671

Between 1670 and his death in 1673, the Antwerp sculptor Pieter Xaveri lived in Leiden, where he specialized in small figures modelled in clay. Thanks to these signed ivory figurines, we know that he also pursued that specialism. Xaveri has here abandoned his quick and expressive style in clay modelling in favour of fluid, yet restrained forms.

Identification

Title(s)

Adam and Eve
Adam

Object type

sculpture

Object number

BK-1960-3-A

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘XAVERI 1671’

Description

Adam staat op een grondje op het linkerbeen en met het rechter gebogen, houdt met de linkerhand een tak met bladeren voor de schaamte en heeft de opgerichte, naar buiten gekeerde rechterhand op borsthoogte. Zijn hoofd is iets naar links gewend, de mond half geopend.

Creation

Artist

ivory carver: Pieter Xaveri

Place

Leiden

Dating

1671

Material and Technique

Material

ivory

Technique

cutting

Measurements

height 17 cm

Subject

What

Eve offers the fruit to Adam (+ variant)

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer M. Hamburger, Paris, with pendant BK-1960-3-B, fl. 8,200 for both, to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum [Amsterdam], Jaap Leeuwenberg, cat.nr. 326a
Europäische Barockplastik am Niederrhein : Grupello und seine Zeit, Wend von Kalnein, Else Rümmler, Christian Theuerkauff, cat.nr. 286
Aanwinsten
Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (1960), p. 16, afb.

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.24816

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