The Salutation of Beatrice Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1849-1863
<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p> <quote>“Two panels painted in a week for a cabinet at the Red House, Bexley Heath, the home of William Morris and his wife”</quote> (see Surtees, <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="70" workcode="s116">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> , vol. 1, 70). Only the panel on the left depicts the famous “Salutation of Beatrice” from the opening of Dante's <hi rend="i">Vita Nuova</hi> when Dante first meets Beatrice in Florence dressed in white and flanked by two other ladies. The other panel represents the meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Eden, recorded by Dante in the <hi rend="i">Purgatorio</hi> (Canto XXX).

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Production History

“An unfinished centre panel, Dantis Amor (of the same dimensions as the left and right panels), representing the figure of Love, separated the left panel depicting The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Florence from the panel on the right, The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Paradise. When the Red House was abandoned in 1865 the panels were removed from the cabinet, the left and right ones being framed together with a partition in the middle, on to which Rossetti painted a second version of Dantis Amor in a narrow oblong (the width of the partition)” (see Surtees, <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="70" workcode="s116">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> , vol. 1, 70).

A later sketch, made around 1869, depicts the scene of Dante meeting with Beatrice in Florence. Whether this was a brief study made toward a second version of the same scene is not known.

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Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 200 WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 36 <hi rend="i">The Pre–Raphaelites</hi> [Tate 1984], 252. Sharp, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 264-265 Stephens, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 50. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 70 (no. 116).

National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) oil Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings 1923 0 Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings 1923 0 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood J. Ernest Phythian 1905 0 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood J. Ernest Phythian 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 0 Two Ladies with Fans Preliminary Study for The Salutation of Beatrice DGR 1848 (circa) pencil and gouache on heavy-duty, yellow-gray card stock 1 Dante Gabriel Rossetti F. G. Stephens 1894 0 The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies Special Issue: A Rossetti Cabinet: A Portfolio of Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti William E. Fredeman 1991 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 The Salutation of Beatrice (replica) DGR 1863 1863 watercolour 4 The Salutation of Beatrice (replica) DGR 1864 1864 watercolour 1 The Salutation of Beatrice Salutatio Beatricis DGR 1859 June 15-25 1859; 1859 oil 12 The Salutation of Beatrice (design) DGR 1849-1850 Left: 1849; Right: 1850 pen and ink 1 The Salutation of Beatrice (sketch) DGR 1849 pen and brown ink on ruled paper 1 The Salutation of Beatrice (study for left panel) DGR 1859 (circa) pencil, pen and Indian ink on card 2 The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Paradise DGR 1853-4 watercolour 1 The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice in Paradise (rough sketch) DGR 1852 (circa) pen and brown ink and pencil on blue paper 1 The Salutation of Beatrice (rough sketch for right panel) DGR 1852 (circa) pen and brown ink 1 The Salutation of Beatrice (sketch of Dante) DGR 1849-1859 (circa) pen and brown ink 2 Il Saluto di Beatrice DGR 1849 (intended; never executed) 1 The Salutation of Beatrice [print] DGR 1870-1913 (circa) Brown/charcoal and cream print mounted on cream board 1 The Salutation of Beatrice [print] DGR 1870-1913 (circa) 1859 Cream and charcoal grey/brown, not mounted 1 The Salutation of Beatrice [print] DGR 1870-1913 (circa) photoprint (cream and charcoal) mounted on cream board 1 The Salutation of Beatrice [print] DGR 1870-1913 (circa) photoprint (cream and charcoal), not mounted 1