Art, literature & history
Adam and Eve at the Foot of the Cross
c. 1647
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 36.8 x 57 cm (14 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.) sheet: 37 x 57.2 cm (14 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2001.14.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Claude Mellan. Adam and Eve at the Foot of the Cross. Claude Mellan; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Mellan,_Adam_and_Eve_at_the_Foot_of_the_Cross,_c._1647,_NGA_118033.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Adam and Eve at the Foot of the Cross — Claude Mellan. c. 1647.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 36.8 x 57 cm (14 1/2 x 22 7/16 in.) sheet: 37 x 57.2 cm (14 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2001.14.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.