Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo), also called Baccio della Porta, Italian (active Florence, Venice, and Rome), 1472 - 1517

Geography:
Made in Italy, Europe

Date:
By 1512

Medium:
Oil on panel

Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (31.7 x 25.1 cm)

Curatorial Department:
European Painting

* Gallery 250, European Art 1500-1850, second floor

Accession Number:
Cat. 78

Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

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This painting is unfinished: the artist began to apply light tones over the sepia-colored underpainting but the figure of Adam remains a drawn form without tonal variations.

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