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STUDY for CHRYSAOR in THE BIRTH OF PEGASUS AND CHRYSAOR.
c.1875-77
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Watercolour
and gold paint on brown paper, 24.75 x 14 (9.75 x 5.5)
Signed,
EBJ (vertically, in gold, lower right)
Provenance:
Rev. Stuart A.Donaldson: Barbizon House, from whom purchased
by Cecil French in June 1934.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (25); Fulham 1983 (13).
An
elongated nude youth, hands behind his head, floats upright
against a background of a stylized mountain ridge and sky.
Chrysaor
and Pegasus, the flying horse, were the offspring of the Gorgon,
Medusa, and sprang from her body as Perseus slew her.
A
study for the figure of Chrysaor in The Birth of Pegasus
and Chrysaor from the Blood of Medusa, a low relief soppraporte
for the decorative scheme. There is a full-scale cartoon,
in gouache, c.1877, (121.25 x 116.2) in Southampton Art Gallery
and a scale drawing of the decoration, c.1875 (40.6 x 132.1),
showing the Chrysaor panel executed in gesso, between paintings
of The Finding of Medusa and The Death of Medusa,
is in the Tate Gallery, London (NO3457), see Harrison and
Waters p.119, pls.171, 174.
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