1943.739: The Salutation of Beatrice

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.739

People

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)

Title

The Salutation of Beatrice

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Il Saluto di Beatrice

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1849-1850

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297538

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream wove paper, darkened

Dimensions

39.5 x 67.7 cm (15 9/16 x 26 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: None
• inscription: above figure of Amor, black ink over graphite, in artist's hand: ITA N'E BEATRICE IN ALTO CIELO / 9 GIUGNO 1290
• inscription: below figure of Amor, black ink over graphite, in artist's hand: ED HA LASCIATO AMOR MECO DOLENTE
• inscription: lower left, black ink over graphite, in artist's hand: E CUI SALUTA, FA TREMAR LO CORE
• inscription: lower center, black ink over graphite, in artist's hand: IL SALUTO DI BEATRICE
• inscription: lower right, black ink over graphite, in artist's hand: GUARDAMI BEN; BEN SON, BEN SON BEATRICE
• inscription: lower right of left panel, brown ink, in artist's hand: DGR (monogram) 1849
• inscription: lower right of right panel, brown ink, in artist's hand: DGR (monogram) 1850

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

George Rae, Birkenhead; Viscount Leverhulme, 1917; his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, March 4, 1926, no. 272, Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Surtees 116A

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.739

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Macmillan and Co. (London, England, 1882), pp. 136, 182, 226, chronology, no. 5
• Frederic George Stephens, "The Earlier Works of Rossetti" (2 parts), Portfolio, Portfolio (London, England, 1883), pt. 1, part 1, pg. 87, n. 1, part 2, pg. 118
• Oliver G. Destrée, Les Pré-Raphaélites: Notes sur l'Art Decoratif (Brussels, Belgium, 1894), chronology, no. 13
• Ulisse Ortensi, "I Artisti Contemporanei: Dante Gabriele Rossetti", Emporium, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche (Bergamo, Italy, 1896), vol. IV, illus. pg. 7
• Henry Currie Marillier, "The Salutation of Beatrice; as Treated Pictorially by D. G. Rossetti", Art Journal (London, December 1899), 61, pp. 353-357
• Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life, George Bell & Sons (London, 1899), pp. 24, 25, 86, 87, no. 15, repr. p. 24
• Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina, G. P. Putnam's Sons (London, England, 1900), chronology, no. 217
• Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an illustrated memorial of his art and life, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1904), pp. 25, 87, chronology no. 15, illus. pg. 24
• Paget Toynbee, Chronological List with Notes of Paintings and Drawings from Dante by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Torino, 1912), no. 6
• Henri Dupré, Un Italien d’Angleterre : la poète-peintre Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. M. Dent (Paris, 1921), pp. 66, 67
• John L. Sweeney, "Imaginative Design: Blake to Pre-Raphaelites", Art News (January 1, 1944), 42, illus. pg. 18
• Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 69
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 63, repr.
• Robin Ironside and John A. Gere, Pre-Raphaelite Painters, Phaidon Press (London, 1948), pp. 34, 37
• Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 203
• Millard F. Rogers, Jr., "The Salutation of Beatrice, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti", Connisseur (July 1963), 153, pp. 180-181
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Letters, ed. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1965-1967), vol. 1, pp. 48, 49; vol 2, pp. 490-491
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 110, repr.
• Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), pg. 71, no. 116A, pl. 173
• Marina Henderson, D. G. Rossetti, Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press (London, England and New York, NY, 1973), illus. p. 54
• Denys Sutton, "The Pursuit of Beauty", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 446-452, pg. 449, fig. 9
• Alastair Grieve, The Art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Watercolours and Drawings of 1850-1855, Real World (Norwich, 1978), pp. 9-11, fig. 7
• Herbert L. Sussman, Fact into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH, 1979), pl. 33, p. 122; see also pp. 121, 123
• Dr. Maryan W. Ainsworth, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "'Dantis Amor'", Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (November 1980), I, no. 1, facing pg. 72, fig. 6
• Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Disegni, Nuova Italia (Florence, 1982), no. 7, repr.
• Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 22, repr. p. 168
• Corrado Gizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Mazzotta (Milan, 1984), no. 45, repr. pp. 150, 183
• Mary Bennett, Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation (London, 1988), pg. 199
• Alicia Craig Faxon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1989), pg. 59, pl. 41
• Kirsten Hoving Powell, "Object, Symbol, and Metaphor: Rossetti's Musical Imagery", Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (Spring 1993), n.s., 2, pp. 16-29, p. 18
• 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), pg. 136, under no. 31
• Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 22, repr. p. 168
• Gail S. Weinberg, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Salutation of Beatrice' and Camille Bonnard's 'Costumes Historiques'", The Burlington Magazine (October 1999), vol. XVLI, no. 1159, pp. 622-623, pp. 622-623, repr.
• Eriko Yamaguchi, "Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's 'Costumes Historiques': A Further Examination, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (Fall 2000), vol. 9, p. 11 (R9)
• 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), p. 60, fig. 16
• 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), cat. no. 181, repr. (color)
• Julian Treuherz and Elizabeth Prettejohn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson (London, 2003), fig. 5 (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. 181, repr.
• Gail S. Weinberg, "D. G. Rossetti's Ownership of Botticelli's 'Smeralda Brandini'", The Burlington Magazine (January 2004), vol. CXLVI, no. 1210, pp. 20-26, p. 14, n. 16
• Elizabeth Prettejohn, Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2007), p. 206, fig. 110
• Martina John, Rossettis Dante: Bild-Text-Relationen und Literaturrezeption bei Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Verlag Ludwig (Kiel, 2015), pp. 129-148, pl. 3
• Alastair Grieve, The Best Years of Rossetti's Art, 1846 to 1862, Real World (Norwich, 2017), pp. 170-173, 499

Exhibition History

• Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 01/01/1883 - 12/31/1883
• Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
• Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
• Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
• 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
• 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/10/2015 - 05/03/2016

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