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Provenance
Private collection, Stockholm [according to Rich 1936, p. 46]. J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1935 [record of payment to Goudstikker, September 10, 1935, Art Institute Archives]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, September 1935; given to the Art Institute, 1935.
Publications
“Report for the Year 1935,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 30 (1936), p. 17 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, “An Unpublished ‘Adam and Eve’ by Cranach,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 30 (1936), pp. 45–50 (ill.). “Art throughout America, Chicago: Exhibitions and Two Cranachs,” Art News 34, 30 (1936), p. 11 (ill.). “Cranach’s ‘Adam and Eve’ Given to Chicago,” Art Digest 10, 15 (1936), p. 18 (1935.295 ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 38, no. 33, pl. 25. “Chicago Art Institute,” Life, September 8, 1941, p. 211 (1935.295 ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (1941), p. 28. Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, The Enjoyment of Art in America, Philadelphia and New York, 1942, pls. 462–64. The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (1945), p. 30. “The German Masters,” Masterpieces 1 (1950), pp. 74–75 (ill.). Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51, 4 (1952), pp. 56–57 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1956, p. 27. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, pp. 109, 151 (ill.). Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 203, figs. 34–35. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 38–39 (ill.). Max J. Friedländer and Jakob Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, rev. Eng. ed., Ithaca, N.Y., 1978, p. 108, no. 197, fig. 197. John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 84. K. Turner and J. Spicer, in The Malcove Collection: A Catalogue of the Objects in the Lillian Malcove Collection of the University of Toronto, ed. Sheila D. Campbell, Toronto, 1985, p. 385, under no. 468. Christian Schoen, Albrecht Dürer, Adam und Eva: Die Gemälde, ihre Geschichte und Rezeption bei Lucas Cranach d. Ä. und Hans Baldung Grien, Berlin, 2001, pp. 196, 198, 204, 287 nn. 75 and 85, 288 n. 102.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472–1553)
- Date
- 1533–37
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 107.5 × 36.4 cm (42 5/16 × 14 5/16 in.); Framed: 121.6 × 51.6 cm (47 7/8 × 20 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 16th Century
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1935.294
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