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Love's Melancholy
Constant Mayer · 1866
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York. S. M. Schafer, by 1876. Private collection, Long Island; D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, by 1994; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Philadelphia, Memorial Hall and Art Annex, <em>Centennial International Exhibition</em>, May 10–Nov. 10, 1876, cat. 28 (organized by United States Centennial Commission, Philadelphia).
Literature
Published references
- Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001): 24, pl. 6 (ill.).
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