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This painting developed out of Brown's illustration for 'The Poetical Works of Lord Byron,' published by Moxon in 1870 and edited by William Michael Rossetti. It depicts a scene from the poem 'Don Juan' in which Haidee, the daughter of a Greek pirate, and her nurse Zoe discover the seemingly lifeless body of Don Juan on a beach. There are three other versions of the same composition: an oil at the Musée D'Orsay, Paris, a watercolour at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and a pastel study at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.LM
- Presented by Harry Lucas, 1912.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
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Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Ford Madox Brown |
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Inscriptions
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Date(s) |
Notes |
FMB 73 |
Monogram |
bottom left |
Handwritten |
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Painted by F. Madox Brown / 37 Fitzroy Square W. / No. 1 |
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reverse |
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Goodman & Fox / Pall Mall. Fine Art Dealers |
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frame |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Byron: A Dangerous Romantic |
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Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere |
1989-04 - 1990-01 |
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La Passion selon Don Juan |
126 |
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence |
1991 - 1991 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works |
F M Hueffer |
1896 |
Longmans, Green and Co., London |
pp 245-46 ff. |
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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. 21 |
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Studies in Romanticism, vol. 27, no. 4 |
Martin Meisel |
Winter 1988 |
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p. 599, repr. fig. 8 |
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Byron: A Dangerous Romantic |
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1989 |
Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere |
pp. 11-12, repr. p. 12 |
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La Passion selon Don Juan |
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1991 |
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence |
p. 105; repr. p. 105 |
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The Art of Ford Madox Brown |
Kenneth Bendiner |
1998 |
The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park Pennsylvania |
repr. fig. 55 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey |
2008 |
D. Giles Limited, London |
p. 37 |
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Frederick Leyland for £420; Harry Quilter; Harry Lucas |
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