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ALLEGORICAL FEMALE FIGURE 1862 ?
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Black,
brown and white chalk, bodycolour and gold on brown paper,
29 x 16.5 (11.5 x 6.5)
Signed and dated, EBJ 1862 (lower right)
Provenance: Rev. Stuart A.Donaldson: Cecil French. Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (6); Fulham 1983 (20).
A
frontal view of a full length heavily draped woman, with her
left hand raised to her shoulder pulling back her cowl. Her
right hand holds a swathe of drapery at waist height. She
stands before a perfunctory background of fenestrated city
walls.
The
figure has been identified in the past as both Madonna
and Wisdom, neither of which seem likely. David Gould,
in an unpublished typescript in Hammersmith and Fulham archives,
assigns the drawing to the early 1860s but queries the date
of 1862 which he suspects Burne-Jones added later. The technique
and medium suggest a date of 1865-70 and the drawing has both
compositional and stylistic similarities to studies for the
oil painting of Danäe, c.1869 (96.6 x 48.25) in the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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