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STUDY for the HEAD of ORPHEUS
GEORGE
FREDERICK WATTS, O.M., R.A.
1817
- 1904
A
muscular male head in semi-profile to the right. A study
for the head of Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydice,
a subject Watts painted at least nine times between 1869,
when he exhibited a work of this title at the Royal Academy
(700) and 1903 when he completed the version now in the
Watts Gallery, Compton (185.4 x 104). A small oil version,
1870-75 (65 x 38) in the Watts Gallery was also owned by
Cecil French. The paintings, which all show Orpheus in the
act of turning to seize Eurydice as she is drawn back to
Hades, are similar in composition
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51
STUDY for the HEAD of ORPHEUS
GEORGE
FREDERICK WATTS, O.M., R.A.
1817
- 1904
Pencil,
10.49 x 10.16 (4.13 x 4)
Provenance:
unknown.
A
muscular male head in semi-profile to the right. A study for
the head of Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydice, a subject
Watts painted at least nine times between 1869, when he exhibited
a work of this title at the Royal Academy (700) and 1903 when
he completed the version now in the Watts Gallery, Compton
(185.4 x 104). A small oil version, 1870-75 (65 x 38) in the
Watts Gallery was also owned by Cecil French. The paintings,
which all show Orpheus in the act of turning to seize Eurydice
as she is drawn back to Hades, are similar in composition
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