Adam and Eve (pair of statuettes) (c. 1535): Art, History and Details

Adam and Eve (pair of statuettes) (c. 1535) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Daniel Mauch (German, 1477–1540).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Mauch straddled the late medieval and Renaissance traditions in his career. These small-scale statuettes, however, each made from a single piece of boxwood, stem from the most progressive strands of Renaissance art in southern Germany, closely connected to developments in both Italian and German bronze sculpture. The bodies reveal Mauch's careful study of human anatomy as well as a rapport with Albrecht Dürer's well-known print of the same subject.

Object facts

• Title: Adam and Eve (pair of statuettes)
• Date: c. 1535
• Creator attribution: Daniel Mauch (German, 1477–1540)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: boxwood
• Dimensions: Overall: 18.3 x 7 x 4 cm (7 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1946.429

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "Adam and Eve." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no, 6 (June 1947): 114, 118-120.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

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