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

This is one of a group of toilette scenes by Rossetti dating to the 1860s and demonstrating the influence of Titian's ' Woman with a Mirror'. Beginning in 1859 with 'Bocca Baciata' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Rossetti began to develop a series of paintings (in watercolour as well as oil) of half-length female figures, often with little or no specific subject. The model for this drawing was Fanny Cornforth. A watercolour version of this subject followed, now in a private collection.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
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Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)	Notes
[monogram] 1864
Monogram	bottom left	Handwritten	-	Pencil

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti
31	The Rossetti Gallery, 1a, Old Bond Street, London	1883 - 1883

Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings
-	National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth	1955-07 - -
-	Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea	- - 1955-10

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
-	Midlands Travelling Federation, Lichfield	1961-05 - 1961-05

Pre-Raphaelite Art: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sculpture, Chintzes, Wallpapers: An Exhibition Arranged by the State Art Galleries of Australia
79	Australian State Galleries (Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney)	1962-03 - 1962-10

Artists of Victoria's England
49	Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida	1965-02-02 - 1965-03-14

Pre-Raphaelite Art From Birmingham
46	Hong Kong Museum of Art	1984-10-19 - 1984-12-02

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
138	Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo	1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
78	Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
78	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio	1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
78	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
78	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas	1995-11-04 - -
78	High Art Museum, Atlanta	1996- - 1996-04
78	BMAG Gas Hall	1996-04 - 1996-07

Theodore Fontane and the Visual Arts
67	Alte Nationalegalerie, Berlin	1998-09-01 - 1998-11-29

The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
34	Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham	2000-10-27 - 2001-01-14
34	Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts	2001-02-11 - 2001-05-06

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
103	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
103	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	2004-02-27 - 2004-06-05

The Pre-Raphaelites
124	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24

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. 147.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby	p. 329.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol. 1, no. 174A, p. 101; vol. 2, pl. 253.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 1F1.

Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 12 November 1992
	1992	Sotheby's, London	p. 96.

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia	pp. 242-43.

The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
Paul Spencer-Longhurst	2000	Scala Publishers, London	no. 34

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz	2003	Waanders, Zwolle	p. 188.

The Pre-Raphaelites
	2009	Nationalmuseum	cat.124, p.206; fig.46