Joseph-Marie Vien, 1756 - Sweet Melancholy - fine art print

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The chair, brazier, table, and the setting all show Vien's interest in bringing archaeological accuracy to a new level of precision. Yet his delicate handling and graceful palette derive squarely from 18th-century French painting. The gesture of the melancholic figure, with her head on her hand, has roots going back to the Renaissance. Nonetheless, the painting has a wistful rather than tragic tone. Indeed, images of women in interiors, contemplating a letter with longing or sadness, derive from earlier Dutch paintings of daily life, here transformed into an ancient context.

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In 1756 Joseph-Marie Vien created the painting Sweet Melancholy. The version of the painting was made with the following size: Framed: 86,4 x 76,2 x 6,5 cm (34 x 30 x 2 9/16 in); Unframed: 68 x 55 cm (26 3/4 x 21 5/8 in) and was produced on the medium oil on canvas. Signed lower right: "jos. m. vien / 1756" was the painting's inscription. Furthermore, the artpiece is included in the digital collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. The classic art work of art, which is in the public domain is included with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Creditline of the artwork: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Joseph-Marie Vien was a painter, whose artistic style can be attributed primarily to Neoclassicism. The Neoclassicist artist was born in 1716 and deceased at the age of 93 in the year 1809.

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