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Eve seated at right, handing apple to reposing Adam left. Brown, green, beige.
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
panel paintings (painting by form)
religions (concept)
Picture
Oil
Panel
Religion
Picture
From "A Family Collects: Paintings and Sculpture from the Codman House," Concord Museum, 1993-1994: Religious paintings, such as this one depicting Adam receiving the forbidden fruit, were plentiful in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Like other collectors of his day, Charles Russell Codman did not distinguish religious imagery from other art forms. Many old master paintings were of Biblical subjects and acquiring them was a mark of sophistication rather than piety.
Codman, Charles Russell, 1784-1852
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
AFTER Prague School (Maker)
22 1/8 x 20 x 2 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.847
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