Adam and Eve and Gideon and the Fleece are two life-sized Old Testament paintings by the Low Countries Dutch Renaissance painter Maarten van Heemskerck. They are on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts
M. v. Heemskerck Musée des Bx Arts Strasbourg Gédéon Adam Eve Ausschnitt 2
M. v. Heemskerck Musée des Bx Arts Strasbourg Gédéon Adam Eve Ausschnitt 1
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Gideon also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth was an Israelite shopeṭ, military leader, and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is described in Judges 6–8 in the Hebrew Bible.
Adam and Eve/Gideon and the Fleece
…middle panel is lost. It is thought to have shown a Nativity of Jesus. The Gideon panel depicts the episode from the Book of Judges 6:36-40 in which Gideon asks God for two successive miracles regarding a fleece, first that it should be wet with dew in the morning while everything around is dry, and then…
Gideon and the Fleece (1550) by Maarten van Heemskerck
Gideon thanking God for the Miracle of the Dew, painting by Maarten van Heemskerck (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
Gideon's fleece, as symbol of Mary, in a "Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation" (c. 1500) from a Netherlandish book of hours. For the complicated iconography, see Hortus Conclusus.