The Expulsion from Paradise

The Expulsion from Paradise

SK-A-312

signature, lower right, with monogram: ‘C·P·’

Although God forbade Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’, they did so anyway. As punishment, they were driven out of Paradise by an angel with a flaming sword. They fled into the barren mountain landscape. Van Poelenburch, after returning to the Netherlands from Italy, produced this type of highly refined, painstakingly painted landscape throughout the rest of his career.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen.

painter: Cornelis van Poelenburch (signed by artist)

after c. 1646

olieverf op paneel

height 29.8 cm x width 38.4 cm

purchase 1809

Public domain

...; ? sale, Cornelis Wittert van Valkenburg (1672-1733), Rotterdam (auction house not known), 11 April 1731, no. 48 (`Adam en Eva uit het Paradys verdreven, [...], h. 12d, Br. 15d [31 x 38.5 cm]´), ? to Hendrik van Heteren (1672-1749), The Hague;{Jonckheere 2005, p. 265, no. 48.} ? his collection;{Moes/Van Biema 1909, p. 192.} ? his son, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1724-1800), The Hague (`Een stuk, verbeeldende Adam en Eva, werdende door den Engel uit het Paradijs gedreven, [...], h. 11 en drie vierde d., br. 14 en een half d. [30.7 x 37.9 cm] P.´);{Coll. cat. Van Heteren 1752, p. 458.} his third cousin and godson, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam, ? (`Adam et Eve chassé du Paradis, bois, h. 11½ l. 14½ [30.1 x 37.9 cm]´), or ? (`Mème sujet mais d´une ordonnance differente, bois, h. 11¾ l. 14 [30.7 x 36.6 cm]´);{Coll. cat. Gevers 1808, p. 149, no. 79 or no. 80.} from whom, fl. 100,000, with 136 other paintings _en bloc_ (known as the `Kabinet van Heteren Gevers´), to the museum, by decree of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, and through the mediation of his father Dirk Cornelis Gevers (1763-1839), 8 June 1809{Verroen 1985, p. 17, notes 2, 3.}

• Documentatiemap Schilderijen.
• Th.J. Verroen, Een verstandig rijk man. De achttiende-eeuwse verzamelaar Adriaan Leonard van Heteren, Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 1985, p. 47
• J.R. Judson, Allegory of Dawn and Night, Wadsworth Atheneum Bulletin (1966), p. 8
• Hans den Hartog Jager, 'Galerij : het is hier fantastisch', Oog 3 (2009) nr. 5, p. 26-37, afb. p. 34-35.
• G. Hoet (?), Catalogus of naamlijst van schilderijen, II, 1752, p. 458

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20015853