Cain and Abel

Title

Cain and Abel

Draughtsman

• Johann Jakob von Sandrart

Series

Das erste Buch Moÿse genannt Genesis

Part Number / Total

3 / 9

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• Calco?

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• preliminary drawing for an engraving?
• preliminary drawing for a book illustration?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet oben mittig (mit der Feder in Braun): [Fragment]; unten mittig: Cap XVII. V 23

Captions Added Later

Oben mittig Stempel der Sammlung Edward Habich, Boston und Kassel (Lugt 862)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1908

Genre

• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Cain
• Abel
• Cain and Abel

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Altes Testament, Genesis 4

Primary

• 71A8 the story of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:3-17)
• 71A82 the killing of Abel: Cain slays him with a stone, a club or a jaw-bone, alternatively with a spade or another tool as weapon
• 25H154 glade, 'Lichtung im Wald'