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Astarte Syriaca (study for head)
Alternately titled: Venus Astarte (study for head)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1875
Physical Description
Medium: pastel on pale green paper
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1875
Note: The monogram is inscribed at lower left. The date is inscribed at
lower right.
Production Description
Production Date: 1875
Exhibition History: Newcastle 1971 (no.74); R.A., 1973 (no.364);
Baden–Baden 1973-74 (no.139)
Patron: Clarence Fry
Note: DGR gave Fry this study with the finished
oil painting.
Model: Jane Burden Morris
Provenance
Current Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Catalog Number: 490-1883
Archival History: Clarence F. Fry; WMR; Rossetti Sale (lot 42), £126;
Whitehead; Victoria and Albert Museum
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 373.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s249c.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a study that DGR made of Jane Morris in 1875. It became the basis of the majestic oil he completed early in 1877, Astarte Syriaca .
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