The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

Title

The Garden of Eden

[CDA 2011]

Painting on limewood (Tilia sp.)

Medium

Painting on limewood (Tilia sp.)

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

View over a wide landscape depicting Jehovah imposing the prohibition on Adam and Eve in the foreground, and from right to left in the middle distance: the creation of Adam, the fall of man, the creation of Eve, the discovery of the sin and the expulsion from paradise.

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Production date
1530

Production date

1530

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 6 (l) 81.5 (r) x 114.1 (t) 113.8 (b) cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 6 (l) 81.5 (r) x 114.1 (t) 113.8 (b) cm

  • (thinned and cradled)

  • Dimensions of painted surface: 6 (l) 81.5 (r) x 114.1 (t) 113.8 (b) cm

  • Dimensions including frame: 104.7 x 136.9 x 7.4 cm

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings, dated '1530'; in brown paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings, dated '1530'; in brown paint

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel/cradle: all on the vertical battens of the cradle:

  • top left:
    inscription in pencil: '1462'
  • top centre:
    inscription …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel/cradle: all on the vertical battens of the cradle:

    • top left:

  • inscription in pencil: '1462'

    • top centre:

  • inscription in red pencil: '1467 (?)'

  • inscription in pencil: '1 - 2 (?)'

    • top right:

  • inscription in red paint: '1471'

    • centre:

  • rectangular paper label, printed: 'Prag. Deut.', handwritten amendment: '224', in front '7'

    • bottom centre:

  • black paint, stencilled: '1 (Adler) P. 42'

    • bottom right:

  • inventory label: 'Gemälde Galerie des Allerh. Kaiserhauses No. 3678'

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG3678
FR (1978) Nr.
FR201
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG3678/

Provenance

  • first recorded in 1718 in the imperial gallery (kaiserliche Galerie) in Prague
    [Inventar 1718, No. 331]: "Lucas Cranich, Orig.: Adam und Eva im baradeis".
  • 1876 transferred from Prague to Vienna

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Exhibitions

Vienna 1972, No. 10

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. London 2007 Fig. 37
EditorCaroline Campbell
TitleTemptation in Eden. Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve , [London, Courtauld Institute Gallery]
Place of PublicationLondon
Year of Publication2007
Show Literature
Lechner 2007
AuthorGeorg Matthias Lechner
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä., Das 'Paradies' im Kunsthistorischen Museum, Landschaftsdarstellung, Bilderzählung, Hintergründe zum Schaffen des Künstlers um 1530
Year of Publication2007
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005 202-204, 206, 214 001, 003 (mentioned under) Fig. 102
EditorHarald Marx, Karin Kolb, Ingrid Mössinger
TitleCranach Anlässlich der Ausstellung Cranach vom 13. November 2005 bis 12. März 2006 in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Eine Ausstellung in Kooperation mit der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Show Literature
Heydenreich 1998 A 184
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich
TitleHerstellung, Grundierung und Rahmung der Holzbildträger in den Werkstätten Lucas Cranachs d.Ä.
Publicationin Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, eds., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages181-200
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Vienna 1972 No. 10
AuthorKarl Schütz
EditorKunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere und seine Werkstatt. Jubiläumsausstellung museumseigener Werke 1472-1972
Place of PublicationVienna
Year of Publication1972
Show Literature
  • The Garden of Eden, 1530

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