Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-1882
Woman Attendant
31 3/8 x 16 1/2 inches (796 x 420 mm)
Black chalk, gray and red chalk in lower half, with white chalk, on two pieces of light gray paper mounted on cardboard.
1975.31
Bequest of Caroline Newton.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Study for the painting "Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice", ca. 1870-71, now at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
This drawing came in a frame believed to have been designed for it by Rossetti.
Study for the painting "Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice", ca. 1870-71, now at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
This drawing came in a frame believed to have been designed for it by Rossetti.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist with monogram in black chalk at bottom left.
Associated names
Newton, Caroline, 1893- former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 289.
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Century Drawings
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