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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.673
People
Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)
Title
Helen of Troy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1890s
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297582

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and shell gold on brown wove paper
Dimensions
26.8 x 14.7 cm (10 9/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Henry Benson, Sussex; his sale [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 21, 1929, no. 89] to Paterson (£27 6s.). [Scott & Fowles, New York, January 20, 1930] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop ($325), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Copy of Benson catalogue on Knoedler microfiche annotation notes that this was sold to Paterson (an employee of Scott & Fowles?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.673
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • W. Cosmo Monkhouse, Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart., exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, 1899), p. xix, p. 23, no. 115
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 34
  • 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), cat. no. 64, repr. (color)
  • Troy Triptych, website, 2015, accessed 2-18-2015

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart., Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 01/01/1899 - 12/31/1899
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • 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
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2015 - 11/10/2015

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