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Ruth and Boaz

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1855 (circa)

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1855 (circa)
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.15)

Provenance

Current Location: Mrs. Virginia Surtees
Purchase Price: £320.
Archival History: William Burges; Mrs. Popplewell Pullen; Miss E.M. Burges (Mrs. Watson); Wentworth Watson; Sotheby's sale May 1963 (lot 25), £320

Scholarly Commentary

Pictorial

Eriko Yamaguchi has identified a pictorial source for this work in Camille Bonnard's Costumes Historiques (1829). The clothing of the male figure, especially his necklace, recalls Paul Mercuri's illustration of a fifteenth-century Podestat .

Bibliography

  • Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 188.
  • Fontana, “Representations of the Kiss,” 80-88.
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 33 (no. 70).
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 77.
  • Yamaguchi, “Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's Costumes Historiques,” 5-36.

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 77.
  2. Delaware Art Museum print.

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  3. image

    Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 188.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s70.rap.xml