A Fight for a Woman Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1865
<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>The watercolour has much in common, both in theme and composition, with <xref doc="a.s101.raw"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i">The Death of Breuze Sans Pitié</hi> . The latter was originally executed in 1857 but DGR reworked the picture in 1865, apparently at about the same time he was creating this work. Both pictures are among DGR's most arresting works.

Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

Production History

DGR wrote to George Rae on 7 December 1865 offering to sell him this picture along with three others that Rae had recently purchased: “I will also, if you like, send you a drawing I am doing now, which I could get done by that time, & which Gambart, for whom I began it, considers “unpopular”; though I dare say you would think it none the worse for that. It is called “A Fight for a Woman” & is 14 x 11 inches sight measure. Its price (framed) I would make 50 guineas (cash) to tempt you. I have it thrown on my hands you see, and am wanting money immediately” (see Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 65.172 ). Rae agreed and bought it immediately, perhaps because he already had bought <hi rend="i">The Death of Breuze Sans Pitié</hi> watercolour.

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 65.172. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> ,139. WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR as Designer and Writer</hi> , 52. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 103 (no. 180).

Detroit Institute of the Arts watercolour Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 A Fight for a Woman DGR 1865 watercolour 1 A Fight for a Woman (composition study) DGR 1853 (circa) brush and Indian ink 1 A Fight for a Woman (juvenile sketch DGR 1840 pen and brown ink 1