Adam and Eve (after Pietro da Cortona)
Johann Carl Loth (Munich 1632 – Venice 1698)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1656
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1880 x 1397 mm (74 x 55 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108919
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Adam and Eve (after Pietro da Cortona), by Johann Carl Loth (Munich 1632 – Venice 1698), circa 1656. Two full-length figures, Adam to the left, seated, diagonally across picture, turned to right, profile, leaning backwards, his right leg thrust forward to right, rests on the ground, his left leg up on the embankment on which he is seated, he leans on his right arm as though recoiling from Eve, he is naked apart some modesty vegetation; Eve to the right kneels on the embankment with her right knee, and turns to Adam, left profile, and offers him an apple with her outstretched right hand which touches the centre of his chest; trees and vegetation to the right, sky to the left. A copy of a Pietro da Cortona fresco, of 1640s, transferred from the demolished Villa Sacchetti to the Palazzo Sachetti in Rome. Always attributed to Carl Loth, but it does not entirely look as if it is by the same hand as – or a true pendant to – KED/P/255, Lot and his Daughters. It may, however, be an early work, before the artist had acquired his characteristic tenebrist manner. Recorded in old Kedleston House in the 1740s by Lord Egmont.
Provenance
Recorded in old Kedleston House in the 1744 by Lord Egmont;recorded in Library; Duchess of Northumberland, 1766; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed on top member of stretcher in large black script: Carlo Loti.
Makers and roles
Johann Carl Loth (Munich 1632 – Venice 1698), artist after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Pietro Liberi (Padua 1605 – Venice 1687), artist