Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

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	-

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

Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters Lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
18A	Tate Gallery, London	1911-12 - 1912-03

Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
43	Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth	1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07

Some Famous Pre-Raphaelites
-	Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield	1952 - 1952

Nineteenth-Century English Art
71	Folkestone Art Gallery, Kent	1965 - 1965

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
361	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11

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

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

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

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
F G Stephens	May 1894	Portfolio	pp. 74-75.

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.

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.

City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham: Catalogue of Paintings
	1960	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	p. 127.

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.

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia	p. 312.