About the Artwork
Adam and Eve
1528
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1472-1553
German
Unknown
Oil on wood panel (transferred)
Unframed: 22 3/8 × 13 3/4 inches (56.8 × 34.9 cm) Framed: 27 1/2 × 18 7/8 × 2 1/2 inches (69.9 × 47.9 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II
62.279
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, on tree trunk with artist's sign, lower center: [winged dragon] 1528
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Provenance
Henri Haro (1855-1911), Paris
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-13 December 1911, lot 4
Jean de Bere [purchased painting for 7,000 francs]
Madame B. de B[ere?], Paris
Her sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 10 April 1962, lot 2
Rosenberg & Stiebel (dealer), New York
Detroit Institute of Arts, presented by Anne and Henry Ford II
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The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, pp. 2, 14 (ill.).
DIA Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 87.
Friedländer, M. J. and J. Rosenberg. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach. London, 1978, p. 107, no. 192.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1528, oil on wood panel (transferred). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II, 62.279.
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