The Creation of Adam – The Breath of Life (La Creation d'Adam)
Copy of (?) Etienne Delaune French
Closely related to Claude Paradin French
Not on view
Etching with a Biblical scene of the Genesis (2:7), illustrating the creation of Adam, likely a reversed copy of an etching with the same scene, by Étienne Delaune. In the first plane, Adam awakens, reclined against a tree, while God, dressed in a draping tunic and floating inside a ring of clouds, blows into him the breath of life. On the background, to the left of the tree on which Adam lies, is a landscape with small trees and animals: a cow, a couple of rabbits, a bear, and a frolicking deer. This composition is very close to a print created by Bernard Salomon on the same subject, illustrating the historical scenes of the Bible
