Eve, the Serpent and Death
Eve, the Serpent and Death | |
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Artist | Hans Baldung |
Year | early 1510s–1530 |
Medium | Oil on panel |
Dimensions | 63 cm × 32.5 cm (25 in × 12.8 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Eve, the Serpent and Death (or Eve, the Serpent, and Adam as Death) is a painting by the
History
The painting was in the collection of British politician William Angerstein before being auctioned in 1875 at Christie's as a work of Lucas Cranach the Elder, though in fact the work offers a great contrast to Cranach's many Adam and Eves, from which only the pose of Eve is borrowed. Almost a century later, it was determined to be a Baldung work by the Scottish branch of Sotheby's, where it was auctioned in 1969.
The buyer sold it to the National Gallery of Canada of Ottawa in 1972, where it has since been cleaned and restored.
Description
Baldung treated
In the background is a dense forest while two more tree trunks, slim, angled, and parallel, occupy the middle ground. A marguerite, probably an
References
- ^ Koerner, Joseph Leo (1993). The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art. University of Chicago Press, p. 310
- ^ Hieatt, A. Kent (June 1983). "Hans Baldung Grien's Ottawa Eve and Its Context". The Art Bulletin. College Art Association. 65 (2): 290–304.
Sources
- Hieatt, A. Kent (June 1983). "Hans Baldung Grien's Ottawa Eve and Its Context". The Art Bulletin. 65 (2). College Art Association: 290–304. JSTOR 3050323.
- ISBN 0-226-44999-8.