La Castagnetta
Alternately titled: The dancing girl
Alternately titled: The daughter of Herodias
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1863? or 1858?
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink and pencil
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Production Description
Production Date: 1863? or 1858?
Exhibition History: Tate 1923 (no.227); National Trust (Wightwick Manor,
Wolverhampton)1949-53 (no.21); Maas Gallery
The
Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries
1962 (no.74)
Provenance
Current Location: Mrs. Roderic O'Conor
Archival History: Rossetti sale (lot 206) as
Head of the
woman, Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee,
£1.1
s; WMR; Mary Rossetti; Mrs. H. Rossetti Angeli; Maas Gallery; Mrs. Roderic O'Conor
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 237.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s166a.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Believed to be a study for La Castagnetta, although also very close to the head of Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee .
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