LOT DETAILS

Materials:

coloured chalks

Measurements:

47.24 in. (120.00 cm.) (height) by 22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

titled, signed and dated l.l.: PROSERPINA DGR 1880; inscribed with the artist's sonnet u.r.

Exhibited:

London, Barbizon House, 1922, no.27;; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, The Stone Gallery, Some Pre-Raphaelite Works, 1971, no.3;; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Alfred Hitchcock. The Exhibition, 2001;; London, Peter Nahum, Pre-Raphaelite. Symbolist. Visionary, 2001

Literature:

H. C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1899, possibly no.260; ; Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl (editors) Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1967, volume IV, p.1713: ; Virginia Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1971, nos.233, 233A-D.;; Paul Spencer-Longhurst, The Blue Bower. Rossetti in the 1860s, 2000, illus. p.24, fig.13;; Oliver Garnett, 'The Letters and Collection of William Graham - Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphael Collector', in The Walpole Society, 2000, p.285;; Apollo, June 2001, illus.

Provenance:

Given by the artist in 1880 to William Graham Esq. of 44 Grosvenor Square, London, inventory number 118;; His sale Christie's, London, 3 April 1886, lot 100, bought by Agnew's on behalf of Graham's daughter, Lady Frances Jane Horner of Mells Manor, Somerset;; Probably sold by Lady Horner through Barbizon House, London c.1922;; Madame Jane Benachi;; Her sale, Christie's, London, 20 October 1970, lot 165, bought 'Stone':; The Stone Gallery, Newcastle where purchased by the present owner in 1971