Copyright: © Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft
Memorial
La Bella Mano
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1875
Physical Description
Medium: oil
Dimensions: 62 x 42 in.
Signature: D.G. Rossetti
Date on Image: 1875
Production Description
Production Date: 1875
Exhibition History: Royal Academy, 1883, #307.
Patron: Murray Marks
Date Commissioned: February 15, 1875
Original Cost: £1,050
Model: Alexa Wilding
Note: Alexa Wilding sat for the principal figure
Model: May Morris
Note: It is likely that May Morris sat for the angel holding the tray.
Repainting:
DGR painted out a blue jar Marks had provided for the painting.
Provenance
Current Location: Bancroft Collection, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Delaware
Purchase Price: £2,205
Archival History: Murray Marks; F.S. Ellis; Sold for £865 at the May
16, 1885, Christie's auction (no. 90); Sir Cuthbert Quilter, Bart.; Sold
for £2,205 at the Quilter Sale, Christie's July 9, 1909 (no.
79)
Reproductions
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Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 143. -
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 341. -
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , facing 184. -
Masterpieces of DGR (Gowans and Gray), 54. -
Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 46. -
Hollyer print, Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s240.rap.xml
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