Adam Accuses Eve before God
by GOSSART, Jan, Pen and gray-brown ink, 200 x 265 mm
This drawing, retouched by Rubens with pen and light brown ink, was formerly attributed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst. It is a copy of a work by Baldassare Peruzzi, one of his decorations for the Volta Dorata in the Palazzo della Cancellaria, Rome. Since Peruzzi’s painting was completed almost ten years after Gossart left Rome, and no print after the composition is known, Gossart must have relied on a drawing, a copy of Peruzzi’s fresco or a preparatory drawing for it.