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This was one of the first major Pre-Raphalite pictures to enter the collection and was bought directly from the artist's studio sale in May 1883. It is an unfinished version of an earlier painting of 1879 which is at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. There is also a pastel version of 1870 at Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. The picture illustrates a passage from the Dante's Vita Nuova in which a woman, otherwise known as the 'Lady of the Window', looks down from her window upon the grief-stricken Dante mourning the death of Beatrice. Here the lady is seen seated at an open window, leaning her arms upon the sill, and looking downwards. The head is a likeness of Jane Morris.
- Purchased, 1883.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites |
184 |
City of Manchester Art Gallery |
1911-09-14 - 1911-11 |
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Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation |
18A |
Tate Gallery, London |
1911-12 - 1912-03 |
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Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers |
43 |
Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth |
1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07 |
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Some Famous Pre-Raphaelites |
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Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield |
1952 - 1952 |
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Nineteenth-Century English Art |
71 |
Folkestone Art Gallery, Kent |
1965 - 1965 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
361 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
88 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
88 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
88 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
110 |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
110 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
110 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
110 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
110 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
110 |
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
144 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
144 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
F G Stephens |
May 1894 |
Portfolio |
pp. 74-75. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
no. 301; pp. 198-99; 256. |
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1899 |
The Artist |
vol, 24, no 232, p. 182. |
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Chronological List, with notes, of Paintings and Drawings from Dante by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Paget Jackson Toynbee |
1912 |
Frateli Bocca, Turin |
no. 94; p.163. |
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City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham: Catalogue of Paintings |
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1960 |
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
p. 127. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford University Press, London |
vol. 1, no. 255RI, p. 152. |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
p. 312. |
Provenance
Rossetti sale, Christie's, 12 May 1883 (lot 101), bought by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for £47.5s. |
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