Adam

Adam

Title

Adam

[CDA 2011]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Klein, Report 2013]
[Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

The painting depicts Adam as an almost full-length figure against a black background. Adam holds a branch over his private parts and is turned to the right side of the painting where a section of the tree of knowledge is visible, that serves to lead over to the pendant panel

The painting depicts Adam as an almost full-length figure against a black background. Adam holds a branch over his private parts and is turned to the right side of the painting where a section of the tree of knowledge is visible, that serves to lead over to the pendant panel showing Eve.

[Görres, cda 2016]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2011]

Production date
1531

Production date

1531

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 170.5 x 70 x 2 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 170.5 x 70 x 2 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings and dated '1531'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings and dated '1531'

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel:
[Gal.-Nr., repeatedly]; in pencil: '191'; in white chalk: '[?] 05'; in red chalk: …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel:

  • [Gal.-Nr., repeatedly]; in pencil: '191'; in white chalk: '[?] 05'; in red chalk: '//'; in blue chalk: (in Cyrillic script): '1911/8/; KRANACH'; in white chalk: '[?] 50'

  • [Schlegel 2003, 45][1]

  • [1][Schlegel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Owner
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Repository
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Location
Dresden
CDA ID
DE_SKD_GG1911
FR (1978) Nr.
FR198D
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SKD_GG1911/

Connected Works

Eve
  • Eve, 1531
  • DE_SKD_GG1912
  • Painting
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Provenance

-[Sächs, HStADD, 13458 SKD, Inventar Nr. 1, Bl. 208][1]
(not clear which pair is described Adam and Eve Pair)

  • [Sächs, HStADD, 13458 SKD, Inventar Nr. 3, Bl. 249, 410][1]

  • 1707 moved from the Kunstkammer to the Bildergalerie
    [Hantzsch 1902, 285-287, Fn. 294][1]
    [Sächs, HStADD, Akten der Generaldirektion der königlichen Sammlungen, Cap. X a, Nr. 39][1]

  • 1945 war loss, parts in:
    [Forschungsarchiv SKD, Nachlass Hans Posse, Nr. 15][2]

[1][Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 216]
[2][Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2011]

Exhibitions

Dresden 1937, 13
Weimar, Wittenberg 1953, 38
Chemnitz 2005, No. 2.1

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017 90 under no. 14
EditorFrancesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara
Title I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee [Uffizi, Florence]
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
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Kolb 2015 B 182
AuthorKarin Kolb
TitleCarl Heinrich von Heineken und die Cranach-Rezeption im 18. Jahrhundert
Publicationin Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz, ed., Cranach im Gotischen Haus in Wörlitz, Exhib. Cat. Wörlitz
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Pages179-193
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Maaz 2010 32-35
AuthorBernhard Maaz
TitleCranach in der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden
Place of PublicationBerlin, Munich
Year of Publication2010
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Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005 208, 209, 212-215, 310, 386, 426 2.1 Pl. p. 209
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
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Kolb 2005 A 119, 134, 148, 164, 168 Fn. 23 2.1
AuthorKarin Kolb
TitleCranach - Die Gemälde in Dresden und ihre Geschichte
Publicationin Harald Marx, Ingrid Mössinger, Karin Kolb, eds., Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Pages112-173
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Kolb 2005 C 529, 540-549, 551, 552, 554-560 2.1
AuthorKarin Kolb
TitleDokumentation zum Dresdener Cranach-Bestand
Publicationin Harald Marx, Ingrid Mössinger, Karin Kolb, eds., Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Pages526-572
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Schölzel 2005 192 2.1
AuthorChristoph Schölzel
TitleZeichnungen unter der Farbschicht. Zu den Unterzeichnungen von Cranachs Gemälden in der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister und in der Rüstkammer Dresden
Publicationin Harald Marx, Ingrid Mössinger, Karin Kolb, eds., Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Pages182-197
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Schlegel 2003 45
AuthorArmgard Schlegel
TitleTechnologische Untersuchungen an Holzbildträgern von Gemälden der Cranachwerkstatt in den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Place of PublicationDresden
IssueSeminararbeit der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
Year of Publication2003
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Cat. Dresden 1992 159, 160
AuthorAngelo Walther
TitleGemäldegalerie Dresden. Alte Meister. Katalog der ausgestellten Werke
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1992
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 109 No. 198 Fig. 198
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Balzer 1956 18, 19
AuthorWolfgang Balzer
TitleDresdner Galerie. 120 Meisterwerke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1956
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Exhib. Cat. Weimar, Wittenberg 1953 No. 38
AuthorWalther Scheidig
EditorDeutsche Lucas Cranach Komitee
TitleLucas Cranach Ausstellung. Weimar und Wittenberg
Place of PublicationWeimar, Wittenberg
Year of Publication1953
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Exhib. Cat. Dresden 1937 13
Authorn. a.
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere und der Jüngere. Ausstellung von Werken aus dem Besitze der Staatlichen Gemäldegalerie und dem Staatlichen Kupferstichkabinet
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1937
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 166d
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Heyck 1927
AuthorEduard Heyck
TitleLucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBielefeld
Year of Publication1927
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Glaser 1923 232
AuthorCurt Glaser
TitleLukas Cranach
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1923
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/glaser1923
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Heyck 1908 102
AuthorEduard Heyck
TitleLukas Cranach
SeriesKünstlermonographien
Volume95
Place of PublicationBielefeld
Year of Publication1908
Link https://archive.org/details/lukascranach01heycgoog
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Flechsig 1900 A Nos. 51, 52
AuthorEduard Flechsig
TitleCranachstudien
Volume1
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1900
Link page/n5/mode/2up
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Lindau 1883 222-224
AuthorMartin Bernhard Lindau
TitleLucas Cranach. Ein Lebensbild aus dem Zeitalter der Reformation
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1883
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Schäfer 1860 Nos. 1066, 1067
AuthorWilhelm Schäfer
TitleDie Königliche Gemälde-Gallerie im Neuen Museum zu Dresden. Beschreibung und Erläuterung sämmtlicher Gemälde nach der Ordnung der Räume begleitet von kunsgeschichtlichen und kritischen Erinnerungen
Volume1 - 3
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1860
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Heller 1854 61
AuthorJoseph Heller
TitleLucas Cranach's Leben und Werke
Place of PublicationNuremberg
Year of Publication1854
Link http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062799757
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Schuchardt 1851 C 43 230
AuthorChristian Schuchardt
TitleLucas Cranach des Aeltern Leben und Werke. Zweiter Theil
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1851
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schuchardt1851bd2
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Documents

Technical studies

08.04.2013Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

Identification of wood species: limewood

  • analysed by Peter Klein

20.09.2012Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

Results

Drawing material:

- fluid (brush?)

Technique:

- Single thin lines, which cannot clearly be identified as underdrawing; deviations from the contour lines, particularly in the area of the hands [1]

- an underdrawing is suggested along the contours of the toes of the right foot, for the stones on the right in the foreground and between the feet, and the right nostril (?)

[1][Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

[Böhme, Schölzel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2012]

  • photographed by Alexandra Böhme
  • photographed by Christoph Schölzel

2005Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

Single thin lines, which cannot clearly be identified as underdrawing; deviations from the contour lines, particularly in the area of the hands

Framing

- new frame: profiled, gilded frame, 19th/20th century

[Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

2003Technical examination / Scientific analysis

Support

- limewood

- 2 cm thick

- original surface on the reverse

- six vertical boards

- plane marks

- rebate along all four edges

- the joins and knots are covered with tow

- black coating, the rebate is held in reserve

[Schlegel 2003, 45][1]

[1][Schlegel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Condition Reports

Date2003

Support:

  • corner at the bottom right reconstructed

  • the joins have been reinforced with wooden blocks

  • marks from the nails employed to fix the panel in a frame

Painted surface:

  • the panel is convexly warped on the front

  • some woodworm damage

  • splits along the left edge

  • retouches along the joins, on the wooden inserts, partially in areas of prominent craquelée and isolated over the entire surface

  • old, yellowed varnish

[Schlegel 2003, 45][1]

[1][Schlegel, Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Conservation History

Date1988

[GGAM, Abt. Restaurierung, Meldung][1]

[1][Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Date1957

[GGAM, Abt. Restaurierung, Meldung][1]

[1][Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Date1898

[Sächs, HStADD, 13458 SKD, GG Nr. 8 Bd. 6 Bl. 137, 140, 155][1][Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Date1887

[Sächs, HStADD, 13458 SKD, GG Nr. 8, Bd. 9, Bl. 248][1]

[1][Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Date1835 - 1838

[Mattai GGAM, 1835 with handwritten annotation, 16][1]

[1][Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Date1835 - 1845

'Restaurierungszettel auf der Rückseite des Bildes' (about 1840)

[Schölzel, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005, 208]

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author
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Entry with no author
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