23b
STUDY for VENUS in LAUS VENERIS 1878
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Pencil,
24 x 15.7 (9.5 x 6) Provenance: as 23a.
Exhibited:
as 23a.
Face
study of a long-necked woman with long, elaborately coiffed
hair in profile to the left, her lips parted. Unlike 17,
this study shows Venus facing left, as in the finished painting.
