LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and red chalk on buff paper

Measurements:

13.50 in. (34.30 cm.) (height) by 18.90 in. (48.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, and London, Victoria and Albert Museum, William Holman Hunt, March - June 1969, no. 177. Paris, Galerie de Luxembourg, Burne-Jones et l'influence des préraphaélites, 1972, no. 3.

Literature:

W.H. Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2nd ed., revised from the author's notes by Marion Edith Holman-Hunt, London, 1913. J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, II, p. 82, no. D139.

Provenance:

The artist, and by descent to Hilary Holman Hunt; Christie's, London, 3 August 1945, lot 129 (part) (40 gns to Leger). with Leger Galleries, London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 July 1967, lot 55 (part) (50 gns to Alister Mathews). with Alister Mathews. with Julian Hartnoll, London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 April 1974, lot 20, where purchased by the present owner.