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25
STUDY of FIGURES
1865
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
White
chalk on brown paper, 20.95 x 24.13 (8.25 x 9.5)
Signed
and dated, EBJ 1865 (lower right)
Provenance:
Laurence W. Hodgson, sale Christie's 25 June 1906 (34 with
two others) bought Tregaskis for 11 gns: Cecil French.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (7); Fulham 1983 (16).
A
classically draped female figure sits to the right with her
head lowered, turned to face the viewer, supported by her
right hand. Behind her, to the right, sits a further draped
female, her head leaning to the left supported on her left
arm which rests on a perfunctory ledge.
An
inscribed label, verso, probably by Cecil French, reads "Perhaps
in connection with the early picture The Lament; or
possibly an early study for The Briar Rose". The
latter suggestion seems unlikely but the drawing may be related
to The Lament, 1866 (79.4 x 47.5) in the William Morris
Gallery, Walthamstow. Although the poses differ from the finished
painting both are essays in classicism which played an important
part in his work from 1865. John Christian (Arts Council catalogue,
1975) identifies the influence on The Lament of the
Parthenon frieze, which Burne-Jones had been studying in the
British Museum, and parallels with contemporary work by the
classicist Albert Moore, observations which could also be
applied to this drawing
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