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11
A STUDY of a MAIDEN SEATED in a CASTLE COURTYARD
Early 1890s
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Pastel
with gold highlights on brown paper, 51 x 34.3 (20 x 13.5)
Signed,
E B-J (lower right)
Provenance:
Lady Leslie, possibly her sale, 22 Manchester Square, 19 March
1925 (438); Sir John and Lady Leslie, sale Sotheby's 20 August
1941 (18), bought Meatyard for £4; Cecil French.
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (34); Sheffield 1971 (116); Fulham 1983 (15)
A
three-quarter length pensive young woman, wearing a pink long-sleeved
gown decorated with gold, is seated to the right with her
head turned to face the viewer. She is holding a book on her
lap, in a courtyard surrounded by a simplified fortified wall.
The
use of fenestrated fortified walls as a background in his
paintings is a characteristic which appears in his work as
early as the 1860s (see 16 and 3 above).
John
Christian has suggested (Fulham catalogue, 1967) that this
drawing is possibly a study for Vespertina Quies, 1893
(107.9 x 62.2) in the Tate Gallery, London, for which the
model was Bessie Keene
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