The Temptation by the Snake

1540

Heinrich Aldegrever

Associated Names
Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist, German, 1502 - 1555/1561

The image shows two nude figures, a man and a woman, standing side by side. The man is on the right holding a fruit and the woman is on the left holding a fruit and presenting it to the man. The man has curly hair and the woman has long flowing hair. They are surrounded by a lush environment with a tree on the right and a serpent descending from its thick trunk towards the figures. In the background, there is more foliage and a lion's head subtly integrated at the base of the tree.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.217

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 3, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 6); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Heinrich Aldegreaver, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 3, state only.

Wikidata ID

Q64957320

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