LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.99 in. (71.10 cm.) (height) by 25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1882, no. 36. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Sacred and Profane in Symbolist Art, 1969, no. 124.

Literature:

Henry Blackburn (ed.), Grosvenor Notes 1882, London, 1882, p.16, illustrated. Athenaeum, no. 2845, 6 May 1882, p.576. 'The Work of Walter Crane', with notes by the artist, Easter Art Annual (extra number of the Art Journal), London, 1898, p. 25. Gustave Soulier, 'Walter Crane', Art et Décoration, Paris, December 1898, p.169, illustrated. P.G. Konody, The Art of Walter Crane, London, 1902, pp. 96, illustrated opposite 134. Otto von Schleinitz, Walter Crane (Kunstler-Monographien, no. LXII), Beilefeld and Leipzig, 1902, pp. 57-8. Walter Crane, An Artist's Reminiscences, London, 1907, pp. 230-1, illustrated. Isobel Spencer, Walter Crane, New York, 1975, pp.123, 126 (illustrated), 127.

Provenance:

Bought from the artist by Somerset Beaumont, and still in his possession in 1907. with Galleria del Lavante, Milan, 1969.