gauguinesque

Updated: June 12, 2025

Adam names the animals; his rib is extracted; Eve, a curiously forbidding woman, rather a Gauguinesque type, results; she is presented to Adam; they eat the fruit; they take to foliage; they are judged; the leaves become real garments; they are driven forth to toil, Adam with an axe and Eve with a distaff.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Venice