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The Damsel of the Sanct Grael

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1874

Physical Description

Medium: oil

Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 22 3/4in.

Signature: monogram

Date on Image: 1874

Note: Monogram and date are inscribed at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1874

Exhibition History: R.A., 1883 (no.311); Guildhall, 1895 (no.41); R.A., Pre-Raphaelites and Other Masters, 2003

Model: Alexa Wilding

Provenance

Current Location: Collection of Lord Andrew Lloyd–Webber

Archival History: George Rae; Edward Rae; Charles Rae; Mrs. Robert Rae Catto; Lord Andrew Lloyd–Webber

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Although titled as the 1857 watercolour, this picture is radically different not only in point of its iconography. It also exhibits the more sensuous style of DGR's later work.

Production History

DGR executed this picture quickly in the early winter of 1874, as he told Thomas Gordon Hake (see Fredeman, Correspondence74. 262).

Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 125.
Marillier, An Illustrated Memorial , 80 [80c verso], 175 [176b recto].
Masterpieces of DGR (Gowans and Gray), 51.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 51 (no. 91.R-1).
Highly Important Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Drawings, Sotheby's London, 23 June 1981.

Reproductions

Highly Important Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Drawings , Sotheby's London, 23 June 1981.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 176b recto.
Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 125.
Masterpieces of DGR (Gowans and Gray), 51.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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