Gabriel von Max
Melancholie
before 1890/1891
Oil on canvas
Measurements in cm: 62 x 46 (24 3/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
framed
Signed lower left: G. Max
Catalogue Raisonné: probably Richter 198
Margaret Mary Richter, Gabriel Max: The Artist, The Darwinist and The Spiritualist, PhD dissertation, New York University, 1998 (Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1998), cat. no. 198, at pg. 442 (not illustrated).
Publication History:
Nicolaus Mann, Gabriel Max, Eine kunsthistorische Skizze (Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1890), listed in Werkverzeichnis at pg. 57.
Johanna Johnen, "A Woman Consumed by Emotion: Gabriel von Max's Traviata and Tuberculosis as a Disease of Sensibility," in: Silvia Marin Barutcieff (ed.), Depicting Emotions in East and Central Europe (1400-1900), Pisa 2024, p.131-147, ill. 8.2 at p. 187.
