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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 369000, member: 33&quot;]Interesting link! According to what it says there, &quot;Prince Albert bought the painting as Adam and Eve, which is understandable since the protagonists have no obvious attributes and as nude types are very like those of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a subject which Cranach painted with many variations.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So it might be that at the time that print was made it was still thought to be Adam and Eve, and later corrected to be Apollo and Diana.</p><p><br /></p><p>You asked about why the print was behind the painting. I&#039;ve found in the past that sometimes things are kept or put behind other framed items. I&#039;m not sure whether it was thought that a space needed to be filled to make the newly-framed item fit better? Or if people just didn&#039;t care if they kept the older item inside when something new was put into the frame?&nbsp; Does anybody here know about that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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