The painting depicts Adam and Eve standing in front of shrubbery. The both look at each other and hold the apple together in their right hands. Adam holds a branch in his lowered left hand, which covers their nakedness with its leaves.
Behind them is the tree of knowledge from which
The painting depicts Adam and Eve standing in front of shrubbery. The both look at each other and hold the apple together in their right hands. Adam holds a branch in his lowered left hand, which covers their nakedness with its leaves.
Behind them is the tree of knowledge from which a serpent descends. In the background a stag looks out of the bushes.
[Herrschaft, cda 2013]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Detroit Institute of Arts, revised 2013] |
- Production date
- 1528
Production date
| 1528 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 56.6 x 35 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 56.6 x 35 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 192]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the trunk of the tree and dated '1528'
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the trunk of the tree and dated '1528'
[cda 2013]
- Owner
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Repository
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Location
- Detroit
- CDA ID
- US_DIA_62-279
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR192
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/US_DIA_62-279/
