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Four Panels with Scenes from the Garden of Eden

Four Panels with Scenes from the Garden of EdenGermany
c. 1450
White glass with silver stain
1: 65.5 x 25.8 (25 3/4 x 10 1/16); 2: 66.5 x 26.0 (26 3/16 x 10 1/4); 3: 63.5 x 28.5 (25 x 11 1/4); 4: 64.0 x 28.5 (25 3/8 x 11 1/4)
Some restorations and stopgaps; breakages and mending leads; paint spilled on Eve’s face (1); Adam’s head a stopgap and reversed (4); trace lines retouched especially in figures; panels were probably tracery lights originally, now filled out at bottom

Provenance: Grosvenor Thomas, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1913-1968)
Bibliography: Drake (1913) l, nos. 250-253.

Collection: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, Virginia)
Object/Accession: 68.9.6 (1-4)

A. Eve holding a pomegranate; B. Serpent in the tree; C. Eve shamed; D. Adam shamed

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Entry From: Checklist II Filed Under: Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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