Melancholia is a 1532 oil painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder.

[2] This vertical painting belongs to a series of four works inspired by Albrecht Dürer's seminal 1514 engraving Melencolia I.

[2] The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen owns a horizontal version from the same year which presents a number of similarities.

The Colmar version is accepted as a work largely painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder himself, but with a possible contribution of the 19-year-old Hans Cranach, which would account for the softness of the brushstrokes in some parts.

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