Literature

Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, John Hayes, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, Princeton, 1998, nr. 30

Provenance

Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, England
his sale, Christie's, London, 26 July 1886 (Lugt 45934), nr. 90, to Philpot
countess of Strafford
her sale, 28 March 1923

Iconclass

71A422 Eve offers the fruit to Adam

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1975.1.127

Other works by David Teniers the Younger

Village Festival

The presentation of the Captain General's baton to Antonio Moncada by Queen Bianca, Regent of Sicily, 1410

Allegory of Prudence Triumphing Over Vanity (Allegory of Faith)

Lot Fleeing Sodom
c. 1650

Landscape with Grotto and Group of Gypsies