Art, literature & history
Marriage of Adam and Eve
1555
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Collection no.
- 1953.213.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean Duvet. Marriage of Adam and Eve. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Marriage of Adam and Eve — Jean Duvet. 1555.
Medium: engraving. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jean Duvet, a metalworker from Dijon in eastern France, served as the royal goldsmith to Kings Francois I and Henri II of France. He may have traveled to Italy in the 1510s but mostly remained isolated from other engravers. Accordingly, he borrowed heavily from engravings he must have owned, developing an eccentric, ornamental style with crowded compositions that ignore logical space. Here, he adapted Adam from Albrecht Dürer’s engraving of Adam and Eve, creating a scene of the marriage of Adam and Eve, the first humans in the biblical book of Genesis, before God and angels.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.