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STUDY of A FEMALE HEAD for SIBYLLA DELPHICA
Mid 1880s
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Oil
on canvas, 53.3 x 43.2 (21 x 17)
Provenance:
Ist Studio sale, Christie's 16 July 1898 (63), bought Reece
for 135 gns; H.Reece sale, Christie's 27 May 1905 (55) bought
Ernest Brown & Phillips (Leicester Galleries) for 35 gns;
bought from Leicester Galleries by H.R.H. Duke of Connaught
on 21 Nov. 1909; Duchess of Connaught: Thomas Agnew &
Sons, London: Cecil French.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (26); Fulham 1983 (25)
Head
and shoulders of an auburn haired young woman in quarter profile
to left on a prepared, white-painted canvas.
The
Delphic Sibyl was the priestess of Apollo who guarded the
oracle at Delphi.
A
study for the head of the full length Sibylla Delphica
(152.8 x 60.3), exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1886
and now in Manchester City Art Gallery. The finished painting,
in which Botticelli's influence is apparent in the drapery,
is purely decorative, in the Aesthetic style.
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