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Provenance: The Burlington Fine Arts Club, London
Sir William Bennett Collection, sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 29-30, 1939, no. 169

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Exhibited: The Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1910
The Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1912
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 March-11 September 1988, cat. no. 3

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Literature: The Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of a Collection of Italian Sculpture, London, 1912, pl. XXXVI
L. Camins, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, San Francisco, 1988, no. 3, pp. 20-22
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. I, Oxford, 1992, p. 11
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 15, pp. 44-45

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Notes: This figure is based upon a bronze by Baccio Bandinelli with Medici provenance in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. The modeling, facial type, and casting technique are consistent with the workshop of Severo da Ravenna. Although the figure has sometimes been interpereted as Eve with the serpent, Penny (op. cit.) notes that the snake in her right hand "seems more inclined to bite than to whisper." Other examples from Severo's workshop are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, and three serve as supports for a candelabrum in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (61.35).