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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Melancholia  wikidata:Q116962939 reasonator:Q116962939
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Edit this at Wikidata Weimar Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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Title
Melancholia
label QS:Lru,"Меланхолия"
label QS:Lfr,"Mélancolie"
label QS:Len,"Melancholia"
label QS:Lde,"Melancholie"
label QS:Lda,"Melankolien"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1533
date QS:P571,+1533-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium on panel
Dimensions height: 52.4 cm (20.6 in); width: 74 cm (29.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,52.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,74U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,somevalue,P3831,Q768717
Object history (Probably) Granville Penn (1761–1844), London, and from 1834, Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire, and Pennsylvania Castle, Portland; Christie’s, London, 10 May 1828, lot 119, ‘Melancholy - A Woman with Children dancing and a Vision above’ (unsold); Christie’s, London, 3 April 1830, lot 72
Private collection, Southam Delabere, near Cheltenham, by 1906.
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1924.
F. Gutmann, Haarlem.
A. Volz, The Hague, by 1927.
Hans Ferdinand Heye, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, and by descent until 1989.
Anonymous sale [From a Private Collection]; Christie’s, New York, 31 May 1989, lot 103.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 6 July 2006, lot 64, when acquired by the latet owner.
Inscriptions
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MELANCHOLIA
Notes FR (1978) Nr. FR277
References Cranch Digital Archive
Corpus Cranach
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5813547 (sale 1537, lot 11, London, 8 July 2014)

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