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Vertical drawing of a female figure standing wrapped in a sheer drapery around herself.

A fair-skinned woman wears a long green dress wrapped in sheer drapery from top to bottom as she holds it close to herself. The pose of her arms left arm straight down holding the fabric at her thigh, and right arm bent to hold it below her neck, accentuates the twisting drapery around her body. She also wears a red cap and stands barefoot in a loosely defined landscape of greens and yellow, twigs and leaves. Wind is suggested as part of the drapery is loose off her neck and waves to the left of her head.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.725
People
Albert Joseph Moore, British (York, England 1841 - 1893 London, England)
Title
Study for "Shells"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1874
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297560

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel on tan wove paper
Dimensions
irregular: 41.7 x 19.4 cm (16 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.725
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 59
  • Robyn Asleson, Albert Moore, Phaidon Press (London, 2000), p. 220 note 213
  • Leighton House Museum, A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón Collection at Leighton House Museum, exh. cat., ed. Daniel Robbins, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (London, 2014), p. 137

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946

Verification Level

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