Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
The Watts Gift
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-frederic-watts-586" aria-label="More by George Frederic Watts" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Frederic Watts</a>
Eve Tempted
Presented by the artist 1897
adults
animals: mammals
Bible: Old Testament
blossom
emotions, concepts and ideas
Eve
female
food and drink
fruit, apple
leopard
nudes
objects
people
religion and belief
sensuality
temptation
universal concepts
universal religious imagery
woman
<p>Watts called these three paintings <i>The Eve Trilogy</i>. They represent Eve’s ascension to life, her temptation and her grief after her downfall. In her temptation she is shown greedily entwined with the apple tree. The dissolving forms of the central work correspond to the idea of Eve rising up in an explosion of light and colour. By contrast, the heaviness of flesh in the final work suggests her burden of sin and guilt.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
8 October 2001 – 25 July 2004
2004-07-25
8 October 2001 – 25 July 2004
2004-07-25
2001-10-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-08
John Martin and Visions of the Apocalypse
Collection based display
8 August 2005 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
8 August 2005 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
2005-08-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-08-08
Victorian Spectacle
Collection based display
5 February 2009 – 3 May 2009
2009-05-03
5 February 2009 – 3 May 2009
2009-05-03
2009-02-05
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
http://www.schirn.de
2009-02-05
Envisioning Darwin
Loan-out
Eve Tempted
support: 2578 × 1168 mm

Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999783" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">the artist</a> 1897
<p>Watts called these three paintings <i>The Eve Trilogy</i>. They represent Eve’s ascension to life, her temptation and her grief after her downfall. In her temptation she is shown greedily entwined with the apple tree. The dissolving forms of the central work correspond to the idea of Eve rising up in an explosion of light and colour. By contrast, the heaviness of flesh in the final work suggests her burden of sin and guilt.</p>

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adults animals: mammals Bible: Old Testament blossom emotions, concepts and ideas Eve female food and drink fruit, apple leopard nudes objects people religion and belief sensuality temptation universal concepts universal religious imagery woman