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Ink and wash drawing of a woman in an interior space with a much shorter man in the background.

The ink and wash drawing depicts an interior space with striped wallpaper and an ornamental table upon which sits a tall candle. In the foreground stands a woman with curled black hair holding a rose, looking towards the viewer. Her dress is generously trimmed with lace and flowers, with a row of small buttons on the wrist, and gathered into voluminous ruffles below the hip. She wears a large triangular hat bedecked with pearls, fabric ruffles and long, thin feathers. Behind her stands a much smaller naked man, looking in her direction.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.669
People
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
Title
The Lady with the Rose; verso: Sketch of a Seated Woman
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Mademoiselle de Maupin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1897
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295012

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
Dimensions
19.9 x 16.7 cm (7 13/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Leonard Smithers. [Amsler & Ruthhardt, Berlin] sold 1921; to Scofield Thayer, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1986

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Zatlin 1049

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Scofield Thayer
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.669
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1990), p. 119, fig. 77
  • James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL, 2014), pp. 58, 186
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 1049, pp. 347-349, repr. p. 348, detail repr. p. 338 (recto); no. 1049v, p. 349, repr. p. 349
  • Stephen Calloway and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, ed., Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2020), checklist no. 171, repr. p. 151

Exhibition History

  • Background to Modernism: Prints and Drawings, 1889-1906, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 10/09/1979 - 11/19/1979
  • Aubrey Beardsley, Tate Britain, London, 03/04/2020 - 09/20/2020; Musée d'Orsay, 10/12/2020 - 01/10/2021

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