Adam and Eve

What you see

Adam and Eve stand on either side of a tree that divides the picture. Eve, on the right, raises her arm to take a fruit offered by a child peeking out of the branches. Adam, seated on a rock to the left, reaches toward her and looks up at her face. Leafy branches cover both at the hips, and the eye climbs with Eve’s arm.

Adam’s skin is tanned and Eve’s pale and luminous, set against a sky of white and blue clouds. The leaves and grass are painted with loose touches. Spot the serpent’s tail coiled around a branch and the small fox at Eve’s feet.