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Venus Verticordia (study)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1867-1868

Physical Description

Medium: chalk, principally red
Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.
Signature: initials
Date on Image: AD 1867
Note: DGR's initials and the date are inscribed on a narrow white cartouche at lower centre.

Production Description

Production Date: 1867-1868
Exhibition History: BFAC 1883, (no.73); R.A. 1973 (n.318)
Patron: Frederick Leyland
Date Commissioned: 1867-1868
Model: Alexa Wilding

Provenance

Current Location: Sotheby's
Archival History: F.R. Leyland; Christie's sale May 28, 1892 (lot 12), £126; John Bibby; Christie's sale June 3, 1899 (lot 38), £294; Major C.S. Goldman; By descent to his son, Commander Penryn Monck; Sotheby's sale June 23, 1981 (lot 102); Private Collection; Sotheby's

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

DGR did this drawing for Frederick Leyland and finished it around 12 August 1868 (Fennell 12).

Bibliography

  • Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 249.
  • Fennell, Rossetti–Leyland Letters, 12.
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 98-100 (no. 173A).
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 250.
  • Wood Drawings of DGR , 81, plate XXXI.
  • Highly Important Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Drawings , Sotheby's London, 23 June 1981
Venus Verticordia (study)

Included Text

Venus Verticordia
Note: Only the title of the sonnet is inscribed on a label at the top right. In the finished picture the entire text was inscribed on this label.

Reproductions

  1. image

    Highly Important Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Drawings (Sotheby's London, 23 June 1981).
  2. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 250.
  3. image

    Wood, Drawings of DGR , plate XXXI.
  4. image

    Hollyer (print)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s173a.rap.xml