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

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European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel

Made in Italy, Europe

By 1512

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

Oil on panel
12 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (31.7 x 25.1 cm)

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

Cat. 78

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Label

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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