Pen and brown ink, 134 x 106 mm. Double ruled framing lines in brown ink. Water has caused bleeding of the ink in the upper part of the drawing. No watermark. Chain lines: 22–23 mm. Inscribed in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 1863 (Sparre) and 259 (struck out). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

Hofstede de Groot only hesitantly included this drawing in Rembrandt’s oeuvre. Kruse left it out. For a long time it went under the name of Hoogstraten, and the subject matter remained unknown. Only in 1973 did Wegner connect it with a drawing in Munich and two in Braunschweig, depicting Adam and Eve, one of them including the angel of the expulsion from Paradise. These drawings are clearly by the same hand. A further drawing is in the Louvre, one which Lugt had considered close to Hoogstraten. Sumowski dates the whole group to c. 1662. Although the drawings are connected both thematically and stylistically, the quality is uneven, and there may be several hands involved. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 226]