Adam and Eve

Title

Adam and Eve

[cda 2017]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, revised 2017]

The first couple is shown against a dark background with the tree of knowledge between them. In the tree the serpent turns towards Eve. She holds the apple in her raised right hand and looks at Adam, who points towards her with a questioning gesture.

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, revised 2017]
[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, No. 565]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 93, No. 113]

Production date: about 1513-1515

Production date

about 1513-1515

[Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, revised 2017]
[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, No. 565]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 93, No. 113]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 72 x 62 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 72 x 62 cm
Dimensions including frame: 84 x 73 x 9.5 cm
[Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, revised 2017]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia on the tree trunk: serpent with elevated wings

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia on the tree trunk: serpent with elevated wings

Owner: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Repository: Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Würzburg
Location: Würzburg

CDA ID: DE_MFMW_Lg49793
FR (1978) Nr.: FR113
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_MFMW_Lg49793/

Provenance

since 1937 property of the Reich
since 1966 on permanent loan to the Mainfränkische Museum
[Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, revised 2017]
before 1937 H. Göring Collection, in 1937 lent by Göring to the Cranach exhibition in the Destsches Museum, Berlin

See the entry in the Lost Art-database, Stiftung Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste: Lost Art-ID 220349; http://www.lostart.de/DE/Fund/220349 (accessed 17 Dec. 2019).

See also the entry in the DHM-database: Datenblatt RMG00478; https://www.dhm.de/datenbank/goering/dhm_goering.php?seite=5&fld_0=RMG00478 (accessed 17 Dec. 2019).

Exhibitions

Basel 1974, No. 565

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Cat. Coburg 2018

under no. 1

Author	Klaus Weschenfelder
Title	Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2018

Show Literature

Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

No. 113

Fig. 113

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976

No. 565

Author	Dieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
Title	Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume	1, 2
Place of Publication	Basel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1974
Link	http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522

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Research History / Discussion

The realistic depiction of a human couple was something completely new at the beginning of the 16th century. The heritage of gothic idealised forms is therefore still perceptible in the pose and contours of the figures.

[http://mainfraenkisches-museum.de/sammlung/malerei/lucas-cranach.html] (accessed 2016-07)

Adam and Eve, about 1513-1515

Images

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