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It is thought that Elizabeth Siddal is the model here. She appears to the devoured by the artist's gaze as he paints and looks at her.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti
102 Burlington Fine Arts Club, London 1883 - 1883
 
Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting
150 Musée Moderne, Brussels 1929-10-12 - 1929-12-01
 
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
212(6) City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
55 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
55 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06
 
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
54 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 2005-10-01 - 2006-01-15
54 Villa Stuck, Munich 2006-03-09 - 2006-06-18
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life
H C Marillier 1899 George Bell and Sons, London no. 29; p. 65.
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby p. 364.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
1947 Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London no. 7
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees 1971 Oxford University Press, London vol. 1. no. 695, pp. 224-25; vol. 2, pl. 483.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose 1977 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London no. 3D6.
 
Heaven on Earth: The Religion of Beauty in Late Victorian Art
Gail-Nina Anderson, Joanne Wright 1994 Lund Humphries, London p. 111.
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz 2003 Waanders, Zwolle pp. 164-65.
 
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
Colin Cruise 2005 Merrell, London p. 102.

Provenance

Ford Madox Brown; Brown Sale at his house, 1 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent''s Park, 29 May 1894 (part of lot 93); Harold Rathbone; Charles Fairfax Murray

Associated people

Name Type
Giorgione Depicted

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