Melancholia (Lucas Cranach the Elder, Colmar)

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Melancholia
Cranach, Lucas d. A. - Die Melancholie - 1532.jpg
Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder
Year1532
Medium oil paint on panel
Movement Northern Renaissance
allegory
Subject Melancholia
Dimensions76.5 cm× 56 cm(30.1 in× 22 in) [1]
Location Unterlinden Museum, Colmar
Accession1983

Melancholia is a 1532 oil painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. It is now in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, France. Its inventory number is 83.5.1. [2]

This vertical painting belongs to a series of four works inspired by Albrecht Dürer's seminal 1514 engraving Melencolia I . [2] The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen owns a horizontal version from the same year which presents a number of similarities. The Colmar version is accepted as a work largely painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder himself, but with a possible contribution of the 19-year-old Hans Cranach, which would account for the softness of the brushstrokes in some parts. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "La Mélancolie". museesgrandest.org. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 Haas, Magali (April 2016). Le musée Unterlinden - Guide des collections. Paris: Éditions Artlys. pp. 146–147. ISBN   978-2-85495-625-2.
  3. ↑ "Die Melancholie". lucascranach.org. Retrieved 1 April 2023.

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