Monna Rosa Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1867
Mrs. F. R. Leyland <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>This oil painting is sometimes confused with the identically named smaller <xref doc="a.s153.rap">oil painting</xref> exectued in 1862.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p>DGR painted this oil for Leyland's wife, of whom it is a portrait. His comments on the painting to Leyland are interesting in various ways: “Mrs Leyland's picture is much advanced and in every way much altered, as I have again had it considerably enlarged! To begin a fresco as a pocket miniature seems to be my rule in art. The picture is now 29 X 21 inches sight measure . . . . I have now given the figure a flowing white and gold drapery, which I think comes remarkably well and suits the head perfectly. I think I cannot do better than call the picture again Monna Rosa, and adopt a quotation from Poliziano, which fits it happily:<lb/> Con manto d'oro, collana ed anelli,<lb/> La piace aver con quelli<lb/> Non altro che una rosa ai sua capelli.<lb/> Thus the lady, richly dressed, is cutting a rose to put in her hair, & the treatment of the figure is accounted for” (see DGR's letter of June 18, 1867, in <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 67.85 ).

Fredeman's Rossetti Cabinet includes a small pencil study for the work.

Reception

Iconographic

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

DGR translated the quotation from Poliziano into both French and English.

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 67.85. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 146-147. Sharp, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 203. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 113-14 (no. 198). WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 63.

Delaware Museum photographic reproduction Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings 1923 0 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood J. Ernest Phythian 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 0 Monna Rosa, study DGR 1867 (circa) pen and ink 1 The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies Special Issue: A Rossetti Cabinet: A Portfolio of Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti William E. Fredeman 1991 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Monna Rosa DGR 1867 1867 oil on panel 5 Monna Rosa DGR 1867 1867 watercolour 1 Monna Rosa [print] DGR 1862-1904 (circa) Glossy purple, charcoal grey and cream photograph, mounted on cream board 1 Monna Rosa [print] DGR 1862-1904 (circa) Charcoal grey print, mounted on cream board 1 Portrait of Mrs. Frederick Leyland Study for Monna Rosa DGR 1867 May May '67 red chalk on paper 1