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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.205
People
George Frederic Watts, British (London, England 1817 - 1904 Limnerslease, Compton, England)
Title
Orpheus and Eurydice
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1870-1880
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230037

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 70.49 x 90.81 cm (27 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
George Frederick Watts, London and Surrey, gift; to his wife, Mary Watts, Compton, Surrey, 1886, sold [via Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.205
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marion Harry Spielmann, The Work of Mr. G. F. Watts, R. A. with a Complete Catalogue of his Pictures, Pall Mall Gazette (London, England, 1886), p. 31
  • Mary S. Watts, Catalogue of the Works of G. F. Watts Compiled by His Widow, Watts Gallery (Compton, Surrey, England, c. 1910), vol. II, p. 111
  • Mrs. Russell Barrington, G. F. Watts: Reminscences (London, 1905), pp. 126-127
  • Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting, J. M. Dent & Co./E. P. Dutton & Co. (London, England and New York, NY, 1907), vol. 3, p. 205
  • Rowland Alston, The Mind and Work of G. F. Watts, O.M., R.A., with introductory and special reference to the Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford, Methuen & Co. (London, England, 1929), p. 20
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p. 106, catalogue no. 97
  • Allen Staley, Victorian High Renaissance, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN, 1978), pp. 75-76
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 133, repr. as no. 83
  • Francesca Mitchell, "Technical Study of the Paintings by George Frederic Watts in the Collection at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
  • Andrew Wilton and Robert Upstone, The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain 1860-1910, exh. cat., Flammarion (Paris, France and New York, NY, 1997), pp. 65ff, 142-143, no. 37
  • Helene E. Roberts, ed., Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (Chicago, 1998), p. 525; repr. in b/w p. 520
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), pp. 148-149, cat. #40, color repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 195, pp. 434-436, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 195, pp. 447-449, repr. in color
  • The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, February 19, 2003 - February 20, 2003), vol. II, p. 210
  • Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, July 13, 2017), under lot 15

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1980 - 07/15/1980
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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