File:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Alexa Wilding, A Study for Dante's Dream.jpg
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English: CATALOGUE NOTE: The professional model Alice (or Alexa) Wilding began to pose for Rossetti in 1865 when he 'discovered' her walking along the Strand and asked her to pose for the studies for a projected picture of Aspecta Medusa. By 1870, when this drawing was executed, she had already made her most striking appearances in his art, in Regina Cordium (Glasgow Art Gallery) and Monna Vanna of 1866 (Tate). Sibylla Palmifera completed in 1870 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). Hers was the face that dominated his art of the 1870s (with that of Mrs Jane Morris). This drawing was made for the figure of the attendant on the left holding a shroud over Beatrice's beir in Rossetti's largest painting Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) commissioned in 1869 by the Liberal M.P. for Glasgow William Graham. Another study of Alexa for this painting is also dated 1870 (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard). |
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| Date | 1870 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | black, red and white chalk over pencil on grey paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 49 cm (19.2 in); width: 42 cm (16.5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Private collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
John Varley; Christie's, 11 March 1927, lot 89 as Head of a Lady; Christie's, 20 July 1976, lot 179 as Alexa Wilding; Maas Gallery, London, where bought by Harold and Nicolette Wernick from whom stolen in 2007 and subsequently recovered |
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| Exhibition history | George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 19th Century English Art from the Collection of Harold and Nicolette Wernick, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Artist's monogram and date center left: DGR 1870
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| References | Rossetti Archive | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Sotheby's – image | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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