Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Title

Adam and Eve

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 141, No. 357A]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Cat. Strasbourg 1938, 48, no. 58]

The painting shows the first couple, Adam and Eve, standing in front of bushes. The pair looks at each other. Eve offers Adam an apple with her right hand, while supporting herself on the tree with her left hand. Adam has raised a hand in a questioning gesture and with

The painting shows the first couple, Adam and Eve, standing in front of bushes. The pair looks at each other. Eve offers Adam an apple with her right hand, while supporting herself on the tree with her left hand. Adam has raised a hand in a questioning gesture and with the other hand he holds a branch, the leaves of which cover their most private parts. At the right edge a snake coils itself around the tree trunk.

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 141, No. 357A]
[Cat. Strasbourg 1938, 48, No. 58]

Production date
after 1537

Production date

after 1537

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 141, No. 357A]
[Cat. Strasbourg 1938, 48, No. 58]

Dimensions
former dimensions of support: 50 x 36 cm

Dimensions

  • former dimensions of support: 50 x 36 cm

  • [Cat. Strasbourg 1938, 48, No. 58]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the lower left on a stone: serpent with dropped wings

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the lower left on a stone: serpent with dropped wings

Owner
Musée des Beaux-Arts Strasbourg
Repository
Musée des Beaux-Arts Strasbourg
Location
Strasbourg
CDA ID
F_MBAS_193
FR (1978) Nr.
FR357A
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/F_MBAS_193/

Provenance

  • 1890 acquired by W. Bode from the Virnich Collection, Bonn
    [Cat. Strasbourg 1938, 48, No. 58]
  • damaged by fire
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 141, No. 357A]
  • 'im Krieg fast total zerstört (verbrannt)' ['almost completely destroyed during the war (fire damage)']
    [Note by D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 141 No. 357A
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Show Literature
Cat. Strasbourg 1938 No. 58
TitleMusée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Strasbourg - Catalogue des Peintures anciennes/i>
Year of Publication1938
Show Literature
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 No. 288a
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
Show Literature

Research History / Discussion

It is uncertain how much - or if anything at all - of the painting has survived.

[cda 2021]

  • Adam and Eve, after 1537

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