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Study for “The Question”
Alternately titled: Study for “The Sphinx”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1875
Physical Description
Medium: pencil on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 15 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.
Production Description
Production Date: 1875
Exhibition History: Fogg Museum of Art, 1946, no. 81; University of Kansas Museum of Art,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Circle, 1958.
Provenance
Current Location: Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
Catalog Number: 1921. 17
Reproductions
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 351.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
s241a.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a composition study for the finished drawing at Birmingham. The planned oil painting was never executed.
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