LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.16 in. (102.00 cm.) (height) by 48.03 in. (122.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials and dated with Roman numerals l.r.: SS/ IIII-LXV

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1865, no.431;. Bristol City Art Gallery,. Imagining Rome - British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Centur y, 1996, no.44;. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, and London, Ben Uri Museum,. Love Revealed - Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2006, no.75

Literature:

'The Royal Academy' in . The Art-Journal , 1 June 1865, pp.161-172;. 'Fine Arts: Exhibition of the Royal Academy' in . The Illustrated London News , 13 May 1865, p.451;. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 'Simeon Solomon: Notes on his 'Vision of Love' and other Studies', in . The Dark Blue , July 1871, pp.571-2;. Simon Reynolds,. The Vision of Simeon Solomon , 1984, pp.10, 175;. Michael Liversidge and Catherine Edwards (eds.),. Imagining Rome - British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century , 1996, p.128-130, illustrated p.129;. Catharine Edwards,. Roman Presences , 1999 pp.157-172, illustrated plate.18;. Robyn Asleson,. Albert Moore , 1999, illustrated p.80;. Simon Goldhill,. Love, Sex & Tragedy , 2004, illustrated p.246;. Philipp von Zabern,. Hollywood's Traum von Rom , 2004, illustrated p.72;. Colin Cruise, . Love Revealed - Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2006, pp.120-121, illustrated p.121;. Allen Staley,. The New Painting of the 1860s - Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement , 2011, pp.101-2, illustrated p.101, plate.91

Provenance:

Charles P. Matthews of 23 Herford Street, London and Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex, his sale Christie's, 6 June 1891, lot 121, bought by 'McLean' for 21gns.;. Purchased from Mr A. Willey, December 1914 by the grandparents of the present owner