Portrait of Miss Alexa Wilding
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1879
Physical Description
Medium: pencil and chalk
Dimensions: 95 x 56 cm
Signature: signed with monogram lower left
Date on Image: 1979
Production Description
Production Date: 1879
Provenance
Note: Sold at Sotheby's 9 December 2008 (lot 104)
Archival History: Barbizon House (London), ca. 1920; thence to a private American and
subsequently a private Japanese collector
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa935.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This drawing—one of the last DGR made of Miss Wilding, who had been a favorite subject since he discovered her in 1865—was unrecorded in the Rossetti literature until its sale at Sotheby's in 2008.
For further commentary on Miss Wilding see the general commentary for the 1866 drawing in coloured chalks on pale blue paper.