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Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1863

Physical Description

Medium: oil

Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 26 in., including frame

Signature: DGR

Date on Image: 1863

Note: The signature and date appear at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1863

Exhibition History: Indianapolis and Huntington Hartford, 1964 (no.61)

Patron: J. Anderson Rose

Model: Mrs. Beyer

Note: According to WMR, Mrs. Beyer, a German woman, was the model. Benedetti, however, argues that the model may have been Agnes Manetti.

Provenance

Current Location: Musée des Beaux Arts de Strasbourg

Catalog Number: 55.996.8.1

Archival History: J. Anderson Rose; Christie's Rose sale March 23, 1867 (lot 46), £94. 10 s; Samuel T. Peters; inherited by Mrs. Charles B. Scully; acquired by the Musée des Beaux Arts de Strasbourg in 1996

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

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Bibliography

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 240.
Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of Rossetti , 24, 67.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 125.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , xv, 23.
WMR, DGR as Designer and Writer. , 40.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 91 (no. 162).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 230.
Surtees, Diaries of George Price Boyce, 36.

Reproductions

Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 125.
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 23.
Gowans and Gray, Masterpieces of Rossetti , 24.
Delaware Art Museum print.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 230.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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