# La Complainte de Nature à l'Alchimiste errant [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PERRÉAL, Jean]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Miniature on parchment \(Ms. 147\) ## Commentary La Complainte de Nature à l'Alchimiste errant 1516 Miniature on parchment \(Ms. 147\) Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris This miniature is an illustration to a poem by Jean de Meung in the manuscript Complainte de la Nature à l'alchimiste errant by Pierre Sala. According to the dedication to Francis I, the poem has been translated from Latin from an ancient manuscript found in an old castle of Dauphine. The miniature was taken c. 1850 from the manuscript MS 3220 now in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris and it belongs to the collection of the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. The manuscript contains 44 sheets, Perréal's miniature was between the current folios 5 and 6. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of an Unknown Woman]() - [Portrait of King Louis XII of France at Prayer]() - [Portrait of Pierre Sala]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()