Adam and Eve

Title

Adam and Eve

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, revised 2016]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2017]

The painting depicts a full-length representation of Adam and Eve against a black background, with the tree of knowledge between them. The figure of Adam on the left appears to scratch his head, while placing his right hand on an apple offered to him by Eve. She stands on the right side and smiles at him, while holding a branch to cover herself. The brown curls of her hair fan out across her back. The position of her legs in anatomically inaccurate. A serpent coils itself around a branch in the tree that is laden with apples, and appears to move towards Eve.

[Görres, cda 2016]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, online database, accessed 19.11.2021]

Production date: about 1528 - 1530

Production date

about 1528 - 1530

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, online database, accessed 19.11.2021] [cda 2016]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 38.5 x 25 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 38.5 x 25 cm
[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, revised 2016]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia on tree trunk: serpent with elevated wings and date '15[??]'

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia on tree trunk: serpent with elevated wings and date '15[??]'
[cda 2016]

Owner: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Repository: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Location: Antwerp

CDA ID: BE_KMSKA_42
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/BE_KMSKA_42/

Provenance

bought by Florent van Ertborn
donated to the museum by Florent van Ertborn in 1841
[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, revised 2016]

Exhibitions

Antwerp 2010

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Antwerp 2010

Author	Maarten Doorman
Editor	Jan Vanriet, Paul Huvenne, Leen de Jong
Title	Closing Time. Jan Vanriet [Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 24.04. - 03.10.2010]
Place of Publication	[Antwerp] Ludion
Year of Publication	2010

Show Literature

Adam and Eve, about 1528 - 1530

Images

Conservation History

Date1946

Treatment report in the museum archive

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, online database, accessed 19.11.2021]

conservation treatment by Cornelis Bender

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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