LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil, watercolor and bodycolor on paper laid on canvas

Measurements:

17.01 in. (43.20 cm.) (height) by 25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated '1868' (lower right)

Exhibited:

London, Dudley Gallery, Fifth General Exhibition of Water color Drawings , 1869, no. 315, as 'A Song'. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School , Winter 1906, no. 180, as 'A Prelude by Bach', lent by Ernest Brown. London, Geffrye Museum; and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Solomon: A Family of Painters , 1985-6, no. 59. Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck; and London, Ben Uri Gallery: The Jewish Museum of Art, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites , 2005-6, no. 69. Iwaki, City Art Museum; Yokosuka, Museum of Art; and Kyoto, Eki Museum (circulated by Brain Trust Inc.), The Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris: Artists, Designers and Craftsmen , 2010-2011, no. 103

Literature:

Athenaeum , no. 2154, 6 February 1869, p. 215. Illustrated London News , no. 1524, 6 February 1869, p. 315. Times , 15 February 1869, p. 4. Westminster Review , New Series, 35, April 1869, p. 596. Art Journal , 1869, p. 81. S. Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon , Stroud, 1984/5, pl. 3

Provenance:

Ernest Brown, by 1906. with Ernest Brown and Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, London. with Leger Galleries, London, 1944. Sir Colin and Lady Anderson, and by descent