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Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1856

Physical Description

Medium: watercolour

Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1856

Exhibition History: 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, 1857 (no.54); Liverpool Academy 1858; B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.32); New Gallery 1897 (no.41); Tate 1923 (no.20); Paris 1938 (no.109); Paris 1972 (no.234); Newcastle 1971 (no.24); R.A., 1973 (no.101); Monacco 1979-80 (no.328); Tate 1984 (no.218)

Patron: Ellen Heaton

Model: Mrs. James Hannay

Note: Mrs. Hannay sat for the figure of Beatrice.

Model: Annie Miller

Note: WMR asserts that Annie Miller sat for one of the attendants.

Provenance

Current Location: Tate Gallery

Catalog Number: 5229

Archival History: Ellen Heaton; Winnington School in 1864; Beresford Rimington Heaton; Tate Gallery 1940

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This painting illustrates an episode from Dante's Vita Nuova in which the poet dreams that he is led by Love to the body of Beatrice on her funeral bier.

Bibliography

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 77.
Grieve, “Furniture in Rossetti's Art,” 9-28.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated memorial , viii, 50, 72-73, 83, 110, 127-29, 161, 168.
Powell, “Object, Symbol, and Metaphor,” 16-29.
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 42-43 (no. 81).
Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 95.

Reproductions

Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 95.
Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 77.
Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated memorial , 72c verso.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1

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