Current knowledge

Jan Gossart

Adam and Eve

Royal Collection 407615
Current measurements: 
170cm x 111cm

Received from the States of Holland in 1635 along with a St Jerome by van Leyden (Doort, WS 76, no 2), a landscape in needlework (Doort, WS 157, no 3) and the Burning of the Bones of John the Baptist and the Lamentation by Geertgen tot Sint Jans given away at some point between then and 1643 to the Duke of Hamilton now in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (no 993 and no 991) - as well as some other luxury items. See J. Bruyn and O. Millar, "Notes on the Royal Collection-III: The'Dutch Gift'to Charles I", Burlington Magazine, 1962

Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):