"Adam's First Glimpse of Eve" for Abbe' Delille's translation of Milton's "Paradise Lost", 1804 (Primary Title)

Jean-Jacques Le Barbier, French, 1738 - 1826 (Artist)

1804
French
Works On Paper
Drawings
pen and ink with wash on wove paper
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (28.58 × 18.73 cm)
Image: 8 × 6 1/8 in. (20.32 × 15.56 cm)
86.396.1
Not on view
Collectors mark of Douglas H. Gordon (Lugt 1130a) on verso lower right.
Inscribed in ink beneath image lower left: Le Barbier L'anie in. (?). Inscribed in graphite on verso, at upper edge: "Le Barbier/ élève du David" (?); lower right, next to Gordon collectors mark: "307".
Bequest of Douglas H. Gordon
"Baltimore Collects," October-December 1984, The Baltimore Museum of Art (Lent by Douglas H. Gordon)
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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