Art, literature & history
God Commanding Adam and Eve
1760s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 24 x 17 cm (9 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.) sheet: 20.5 x 21.2 cm (8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.98.7
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Franz Karl Palko. God Commanding Adam and Eve. 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_Commanding_Adam_and_Eve,_1760s,_NGA_110476.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 Commanding Adam and Eve — Franz Karl Palko. 1760s.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 24 x 17 cm (9 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.) sheet: 20.5 x 21.2 cm (8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.98.7. Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation.
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.