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The image shows two people and an infant. One person is seated while the other is standing and holding an axe as if to chop wood. The seated person has long hair and wears a red garment with line detailing. The standing person has short hair and wears a tan tunic. An infant is swaddled and placed in a crib between them. The background is teal with scattered lines indicating wood. The image is framed with a decorative border on aged paper.
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The image shows two people and an infant. One person is seated while the other is standing and holding an axe as if to chop wood. The seated person has long hair and wears a red garment with line detailing. The standing person has short hair and wears a tan tunic. An infant is swaddled and placed in a crib between them. The background is teal with scattered lines indicating wood. The image is framed with a decorative border on aged paper.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Adam and Eve

German 15th Century

Date
c. 1460
Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, tan, and ochre
Classification
Print
Accession number
1943.3.451
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1401 to 1500
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Three Scenes From a Life of Christ

Subjects and terms

  • Woman
  • Baby
  • Franconian
  • Man
Provenance

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] sold 1939 via his son Walter Aufhäuser to Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943. [1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, _Recollections of a Collector_, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, _Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts_, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

NGA object ID 3663. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.