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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

(1828 - 1882)

Woman brushing her Hair

Woman brushing her Hair
The monogram and date are inscribed at lower left.
Watercolour
13½ x 12½ in (34.3 x 31.1 cm)
Acquired by a Private Collector, UK

Provenance

John Bibby;

Christie's June 3, 1899 (lot 37),  Major C.S. Goldman;

By descent to John Monck, his son;

Christie's sale Nov. 16, 1965 (lot 18),

Private Collection, UK

Exhibited

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1973,  no.314

Literature

Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 249-250.

Carrington, Pictures and Poems.

Marillier DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 132.

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 100 (no. 174).

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 252.

Surtees,  Diaries of George Price Boyce,  46.

The Age of Rossetti, Burne–Jones, and Watts [Tate 1997], 138 (no. 33).

Treuherz, Prettejohn and Becker, DGR, 188 (no. 102).

 

This is one of a group of toilette scenes by Rossetti dating to the 1860s and demonstrating the influence of Titian's ' Woman with a Mirror'. Beginning in 1859 with 'Bocca Baciata' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Rossetti began to develop a series of paintings (in watercolour as well as oil) of half-length female figures, often with little or no specific subject. The model for this watercolour was Fanny Cornforth. A prepartatory drawing  of this subject can be found in Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. 

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