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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.489
People
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
Title
Lucrezia Borgia
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1871
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298167

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache with heavy gum varnish on cream wove paper
Dimensions
64.2 × 39.2 cm (25 1/4 × 15 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r: monogram, 1871

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Tong, by 1878; William Coltart, by 1886; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beausire, by 1902; his sale Christie's, London, April 13, 1934, no. 21 (£173 5s.); purchased at that sale by Barbizon House; Cecil French; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, 1938; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Surtees 124 R.1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.489
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A. G. Temple, "Collection of William Coltart Esq. of Woodleigh, Birkenhead", Art Journal (London, April 1896), pp. 99-100
  • Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life, George Bell & Sons (London, 1899), pp. 105, 106, under no. 240
  • Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina, G. P. Putnam's Sons (London, England, 1900), chronology, no. 155
  • William M. Rossetti, ed., Rossetti Papers, 1862-1870, a compilation, Sands (London, 1903), pg. 301 (on reworking of first version)
  • Jarno Jessen, Rossetti, Velhagen und Klassing (Bielefeld and Leipzig, Germany, 1905), pg. 43, fig. 30
  • Ernest Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Newnes' Art Library (London, 1908), pl. 40
  • Algernon Graves, Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912 (London, England, 1913 - 1915), vol. 3 (1914), pp. 1152, 1153, 1155
  • Vittorio Pica, L'arte mondiale a Roma nel 1911, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche (Bergamo, 1913), repr. pg. 303
  • Tate Britain, Catalogue: British School, H. M. Stationery Office (London, 1924), pg. 269
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 78, repr.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Letters, ed. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1965-1967), vol. 3, repr facing p. 1112
  • Dictionnaire universel de l’art et des artistes . . . (3 vols.), F. Hazan (Paris, 1967-1968), vol. 3, repr. in article on Rossetti
  • Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 124 R.1
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 60, 61, cat. no. 51 p. 107
  • Francis L. Fennell Jr., ed., The Rossetti-Leyland Letters: The Correspondence of an Artist and His Patron, Ohio University Press (Athens, Ohio, 1978), pp. 10, 11, 35 (Tate Britain version)
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 377, repr. p. 292
  • Alicia Craig Faxon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1989), pp. 151, 153, pl. 160
  • Christopher Finch, Nineteenth-Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1991), pg. 215 (Tate Britain version, pl. 287)
  • Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 377, repr. p. 292
  • Eriko Yamaguchi, "Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's 'Costumes Historiques': A Further Examination, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (Fall 2000), vol. 9, pg. 20
  • 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. 187, 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. 187, repr.
  • Kirsty Stonell Walker, Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth, Lulu Publishing (2006), p. 121
  • Kirsty Stonell Walker, Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth, 2nd Ed., CreateSpace.com (2011), p. 223
  • Margaret E. Bullock and David F. Martin, Austere Beauty: the Art of Z. Vanessa Helder, exh. cat., Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, 2013), pp. 58-59; repr. in color as fig. 2.2, p. 59

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition. Royal Institute, Manchester, Royal Institute, Manchester, 01/01/1878 - 01/01/1878
  • Grand Loan Exhibition of Pictures from Lancashire Collections, and Exhibition of the Liverpool Society of Painters in Water-Colours and Liver Sketching Club, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Liverpool, 01/01/1886 - 07/31/1886
  • Southport Centenary Exhibition, Municipal Gardens, Southport, 01/01/1892 - 12/31/1892
  • Pictures Ancient and Modern by Artists of the British and Continental Schools, including a Special Selection from the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, New Gallery, London, 01/01/1897 - 12/31/1898
  • International Exhibition of Industry, Science, and Art, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, 01/01/1901 - 01/01/1901
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 01/01/1902 - 12/31/1902
  • International Fine Arts Exhibition: British Section, British Fine Art Palace, Rome, 04/01/1911 - 10/31/1911
  • Jubilee Autumn Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Liverpool, 01/01/1922 - 01/01/1922
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • 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

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