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Artist: Cranach the Elder, Lucas (2)

Period: 16th century (4547)

Type: oil paint (478)

Style: German (166) | Renaissance (558)

Subjects: Adam (Biblical figure)  (46) | Eve (Biblical figure)  (43)

Keywords
animals and birds (2403) | apples (14) | biblical events (1059) | deer (70) | Eden (17) | fig leaves (15) | grapes (106) | lions (476) | paradise (16) | snakes (110) | storks (11) | trees (742)

Adam and Eve

1526

Cranach the Elder, Lucas    more

Oil on panel

height (panel): 117 cm; width (panel): 80 cm; height (frame): 136.4 cm; width (frame): 99.8 cm; depth (frame): 13 cm

Inscription
Inscription, signed and dated, within image, recto (on the central tree trunk), winged serpent monogram:
1526

Acquisition
Lee of Fareham, Arthur Hamilton (1st Viscount); bequest; 1947
P.1947.LF.77

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London