Art, literature & history
God Breathing Life into Adam
1760s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 24.2 x 17.2 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 26.1 x 19.4 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2000.89.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Franz Karl Palko. God Breathing Life into Adam. Franz Karl Palko; 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:Franz_Karl_Palko,_God_Breathing_Life_into_Adam,_1760s,_NGA_115461.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
God Breathing Life into Adam — Franz Karl Palko. 1760s.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 24.2 x 17.2 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 26.1 x 19.4 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2000.89.5. 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.