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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.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
[monogram] 1864 |
Monogram |
bottom left |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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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 |
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Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings |
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National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1955-07 - - |
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Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea |
- - 1955-10 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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Midlands Travelling Federation, Lichfield |
1961-05 - 1961-05 |
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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 |
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Artists of Victoria's England |
49 |
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida |
1965-02-02 - 1965-03-14 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Art From Birmingham |
46 |
Hong Kong Museum of Art |
1984-10-19 - 1984-12-02 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
138 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
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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 |
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Theodore Fontane and the Visual Arts |
67 |
Alte Nationalegalerie, Berlin |
1998-09-01 - 1998-11-29 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
124 |
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24 |
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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. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby |
p. 329. |
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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. 174A, p. 101; vol. 2, pl. 253. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 1F1. |
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Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 12 November 1992 |
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1992 |
Sotheby's, London |
p. 96. |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
pp. 242-43. |
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The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s |
Paul Spencer-Longhurst |
2000 |
Scala Publishers, London |
no. 34 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 188. |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
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2009 |
Nationalmuseum |
cat.124, p.206; fig.46 |
Provenance
Given by Rossetti to Fanny Cornforth; bought by Charles Fairfax Murray in Oct 1891 from Buck and Reid. |
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