Commentary
Introduction
The title of this work overlaps with the alternate title DGR gave to his great oil painting
of 1866,
Monna Vanna
, as well as to the first of his triptych of
“Three Songs”
.
Textual History: Composition
Textual History: Revision
Production History
A red chalk version of the picture, not traced, was
apparently a study for the oil on panel that DGR completed for
George Boyce around 16 June 1863 (see
Correspondence
63. 66). The enlarged watercolour replica done in 1868 for
W. A Turner (and reworked in 1874-1875) is in a private collection.
Surtees observes that the watercolour known as
The Rose: A Lady at a Window
may well be identical with the replica done for Turner.
Bibliographic
Fredeman,
Correspondence
, 63. 66.
Marillier,
DGR: An Illustrated Memorial
, 131.
Surtees,
A Catalogue Raisonné
, vol. 1, 89-90 (no. 160).