Melchior’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Composite Sword
Blade by Melchior Diefstetter German, Munich, Au c. 1520-1555/1556

La Rixe (The Brawl)
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) Charles Auguste Taunay (French, 1769-1824)

View of the Port of St.Paul, Paris
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Pierre Antoine de Machy (French, 1723-1807)

Vue du Schild-Wald-Bach, Prise Enhiver (View of Schild-Wald Bach, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes des la Suisse )
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Caspar Wolff (Swiss 1735-1798)

A Nightmare
Melchior Bocksberger German, c. 1530/35-1587

Portrait of Ismail, Ambassador of the Persian Shah Tahmasp I, Standing
Melchior Lorck Danish, 1526/27-after 1588

Le Tambourin (The Tambourin)
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (French, 1755-1830)

Finding Virginie's Body, plate 5 from Paul et Virginie
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Jean Frédéric Schall (French, 1752-1825)

Portrait of Ismail, Ambassador of the Persian Shah Tahmasp I
Melchior Lorck Danish, 1527-c.1583/86

The Fugitive Slave, plate 2 from Paul et Virginie
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Jean Frédéric Schall (French, 1752-1825)

The Deluge
Melchior Lorck Danish, 1527- c. 1583/86

View of the Louvre and the Pont Neuf, from Vues des Tuileries)
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Pierre Antoine de Machy (French, 1723-1807)

The Night, plate 1 from Paul et Virginie
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Jean Frédéric Schall (French, 1752-1825)

The Prayer, plate 6 from Paul et Virginie
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Jean Frédéric Schall (French, 1752-1825)

Melchior, from the Three Magi
Jacques Bellange French, c. 1575-1616

Venus & Cupid
possibly Melchior Heinrich (German, active 1595) or Hans Rottenhammer (German, c. 1564-1625) or Christoph Gartner (German, c. 1575-1623)

A Crucified Man (Haman)
Melchior Lorck (Danish, 1526 or 1527–after 1588) after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564)

Corpus of Christ, from the Altarpiece of the Crucifixion
Jacques de Baerze (Netherlandish, active before 1384–1399) Melchior Broederlam (Netherlandish, about 1355–about 1411)

View of Port St. Bernard
Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820) after Pierre Antoine de Machy (French, 1723-1807)

Thesis Print of Melchior Anton Eberschlager
Elias Christoph Heiss (German, 1660-1731) after Johann Andreas Wolf (German, 1652-1715)