id: 108501 accession number: 1926.211 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.211 updated: 2025-03-08 13:06:01.517000 Melencolia I, 1514. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Engraving; overall: 23.8 x 18.6 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., in memory of Ralph King, 1926.211 title: Melencolia I title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1514 creation date earliest: 1514 creation date latest: 1514 current location: creditline: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., in memory of Ralph King copyright: --- culture: Germany technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Meder 75 --- CREATORS * Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 23.8 x 18.6 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.) state of the work: II/II edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection opening date: 1934-06-05T04:00:00 Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934). title: 16th Century Prints from the Museum Collection opening date: 1935-12-04T05:00:00 16th Century Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 4-29, 1935). title: Inaugural Exhibition of the New Print Gallery - Prints from the Museum Collection opening date: 1938-08-10T04:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition of the New Print Gallery - Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-November 13, 1938). title: 16th Century German Engravings opening date: 1938-12-13T05:00:00 16th Century German Engravings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1938-January 22, 1939). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: The Scholar in Art opening date: 1968-04-19T04:00:00 The Scholar in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-28, 1968). title: Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary opening date: 1971-02-19T05:00:00 Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971). title: Durer opening date: 1971-04-06T05:00:00 Durer. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 6-May 8, 1971). title: The Vocabulary of Prints opening date: 1975-07-29T04:00:00 The Vocabulary of Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975). title: Eight Masters of the Print opening date: 1980-10-14T04:00:00 Eight Masters of the Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 14, 1980-January 18, 1981). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). title: Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: La Vie opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: La Vie. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-April 21, 2013). title: Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion and Desire opening date: 2014-06-22T00:00:00 Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: no. 25, p. 117, repr. p. 50 & tailpiece. url: T. S. “Dürer’s Melancholia.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 7 (July 1926): 157–159. page number: Mentioned: p. 159; Reproduced: p. 157 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136945 Francis, Henry. "Engravings by Albrect Dürer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 22, no. 4 (April 1935): 59-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 64 url: jstor.org/stable/25137693 Milliken, William. "Silver Jubilee Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108 page number: Mentioned: p. 90 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 644 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n120 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.211/1926.211_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.211/1926.211_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1926.211/1926.211_full.tif