Shop art print and framed art Allégorie : les funérailles de l'Amour by Antoine Caron

The Funeral of Love is a painting produced around 1580 and attributed to Henri Lerambert. It depicts the funeral procession of Love followed by poets. The painting, acquired in 1954, is part of the collections of the Paintings Department of the Musée du Louvre and bears the inventory number RF 1954-4. Les Funérailles de l'Amour is a painting, 164 centimetres high and 209 centimetres wide, painted around 1580 and attributed to Henri Lerambert. The work depicts the funeral procession of Love followed by poets, all heading towards the temple of Diana. This theme has been interpreted as representing an allegory of the mourning of Love, followed by the poets of the Pléiade, either when Ronsard abandoned the tone of his Amours and Odes for that of his Discourses, or after the death of Diane de Poitiers in 1566. The work was acquired in 1954 from the Dol Lair bequest. It is part of the collections of the Paintings Department of the Musée du Louvre and bears the inventory number RF [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the flemish & northern renaissance style.

 

« Allégorie : les funérailles de l'Amour » is kept at Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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