About This Artwork
Constant Mayer
American, 1829-1911
Love's Melancholy, 1866
Oil on canvas
51.4 x 35.6 cm (20 1/4 x 14 in.)
Signed, lower right: "Constant Mayer / 1866"
Restricted gift of Mrs. Herbert Alexander Vance, 1994.6
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), p. 24, pl. 6.