LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor with bodycolor

Measurements:

19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (height) by 14.57 in. (37.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials, dated and inscribed l.r.: 1867/ ROMA/E. LONDRA

Exhibited:

London, Dudley Gallery,. Fourth General Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings , 1868, no.70;. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario,. The Sacred and Profane in Symbolist Art , 1969, no.122;. London, Geffrye Museum and Birmingham City Art Gallery,. Solomon: A Family of Painters , 1985-6, no.56;. Birmingham City Art Gallery, Munich, Villa Stuck and London, Ben Uri Museum,. Love Revealed - Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites , 2005, no.92

Literature:

St John Tyrwhitt, 'Pictures of the Season', in. Contemporary Review , VIII, 1868, p.340;. Sidney Colvin, 'English Painters of the Present Day - IV Simeon Solomon', in. Portfolio , March 1870, p.34;. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 'Simeon Solomon: Notes on his Vision of Love and Other Studies', in. The Dark Blue , July 1871;. Simon Reynolds,. The Vision of Simeon Solomon , 1985, pp.19, 27, 102, 176 illustrated p.34;. Colin Cruise,. Love Revealed - Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites , 2005, pp.43-44, 136, illustrated p.134;. Allen Staley,. The New Painting of the 1860s - Between the Pre-Raphaelite and the Aesthetic Movement, 2011, pp.105-108, illustrated plate 97 p.108

Provenance:

Private collection, Surrey by 1984;. Christie's, London, 11 June 1993, lot 91 where purchased by Seymour Stein