Mrs. James Leathart
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1862 December ?
Physical Description
Medium: pencil
Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 11 in.
Production Description
Production Date: 1862 December ?
Exhibition History: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle,
Leathart Collection, Oct. 1968 (no.64)
Model: Maria Leathart
Provenance
Current Location: Mrs. Rodolfo Mele
Archival History: James Leathart; by descent to his son, Gilbert Leathart, who bequeathed it to his daughter, Mrs. Rodolfo Mele
Description: “Study for the
unfinished portrait which in all essentials it resembles. Both hands rest on the spine of a book, her right one holding a rose” (see Surtees,
A Catalogue Raisonné
, vol. 1, 171).
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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