1943.674: Perseus and Andromeda; verso: Organ-pipe cluster(?) and console

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.674

People

Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)

Title

Perseus and Andromeda; verso: Organ-pipe cluster(?) and console

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1875

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297630

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, white gouache, shell gold, and colored chalks on off-white card; verso: graphite

Dimensions

actual: 34.3 x 32.3 cm (13 1/2 x 12 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Fairfax Murray, London; Francis Bullard, Boston, his bequest to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1913; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.674

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. xv, p. 21, no. 106
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 24
• Denys Sutton, "The Pursuit of Beauty", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 446-452, pg. 450
• Marjorie B. Cohn, "Turner, Ruskin, Norton, Winthrop", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1993), vol. II, pg. 38, no. 55
• 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. 24, fig. 7
• 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. 160, repr. (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. 160, repr.
• Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under L. 982 [accessed 6-4-24]

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
• Turner-Ruskin-Norton-Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/27/1993 - 02/20/1994
• 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, 04/07/2015 - 11/10/2015

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