Art, literature & history
Adam and Eve Lamenting the Death of Abel
1529
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.3 x 11.6 cm (6 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.5664
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Lucas van Leyden. Adam and Eve Lamenting the Death of Abel. Lucas van Leyden; 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:Lucas_van_Leyden,_Adam_and_Eve_Lamenting_the_Death_of_Abel,_1529,_NGA_8588.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 Lamenting the Death of Abel — Lucas van Leyden. 1529.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.3 x 11.6 cm (6 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.5664. Rosenwald Collection.
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.