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Find the serpent coiled in the branch above Eve, then the stag lying quietly behind her legs.
Eve holds up the apple while the serpent coils in the branch above her head and a stag rests behind her. Her slender, swaying body follows the courtly ideal of beauty of Cranach’s day rather than Dürer’s classical model. As in the companion panel of Adam, a dark thicket behind her makes the pale figure stand out.
Oil on panel · 107.5 × 36.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Northern Renaissance
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- Museum title
- Eve
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1472–1553
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.