Adam and Eve Mourning the Death of Abel

A pen and brown wash drawing shows a kneeling nude woman with her hands raised to her head, beside a muscular male figure stretched across the foreground. A seated older man, bare-chested, rests his chin on his hand on the right, while a smoking altar stands in the distant landscape.

Look closer: A small monogram or inscription appears in the lower-left corner, and a smoking altar sits in the distant center.

Artist

Michiel Coxie (I)

Date

ca. 1576

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist;

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3518 × 2536 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2015