Title

Love's Melancholy, 1866. Creator: Constant Mayer.

Caption

Love's Melancholy, 1866. Painting of a woman wearing a long black dress with a white scarf tied around her neck. She holds a bouquet of flowers and wears a wedding ring, and looks down toward the ground with a solemn disposition. The sun sets in the background, illuminating a far away church steeple.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21B29_213

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,6Mb (912,2Kb) / 6,8in x 10,0in / 2048 x 3000 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather nature female women woman people love religious wind flower flowers plant plants arts painting country religion art rose roses faith melancholy sad purity church color death windy Christianity dress location century cemetery grave graves graveyard gallery sadness concept mourning bereaved art gallery oil Painting United States of America Colour 19th century nineteenth century virginity American America USA artistic school mourning dress Pre-Raphaelite portrait united states young women young woman Art Institute of Chicago artistic style Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art centre Heritage Art 19th-century Art Institute Chicago Arts of the Americas Constant Mayer Mayer Constant