Saint John Comforting the Virgin at the Foot of the CrossDante Gabriel Rossetti1Saint John Comforting the Virgin at the Foot of the CrossDGR1862Tate, 1923 (no.258) (I)Private CollectionWilliam Michael Rossetti; Helen Rossetti Angeli; Christie's sale January 10, 1973 (lot
84); Private Collectionwatercolour36.2 x 30.4 cmmonogram1862Monogram and date are inscribed at lower right.Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 236.
Commentary
Introduction
Production History
This is probably the work mentioned by Rossetti in a letter to Ellen Heaton dated March 28,
1862.
Reception
Iconograpic
Pictorial
Two studies for this work are known. The first is at the Fitzwilliam
Museum and the the second was in the collection of the Rossetti family but is now
lost.