St. Catherine

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1857

Physical Description

Medium: oil
Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Signature: monogram
Date on Image: 1857
Note: Monogram and date are inscribed at lower right.

Production Description

Production Date: 1857
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.8); Tate, 1923 (no.38); Whitechapel, 1948 (no.68)
Patron: John Ruskin
Note: Ruskin commissioned the work, but later relinquished it.
Model: Elizabeth Siddal
Note: Siddal sat for the figure of St. Catherine.

Provenance

Current Location: Tate Gallery
Catalog Number: 4603
Archival History: John Miller; Christie's sale May 21, 1858 (lot 170), £47. 5 s; Gambart; Josiah G. Kershaw; Mrs. Emily Toms; Bequest to Tate Gallery 1931

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

Elizabeth Siddal also sat for a study for St. Catherine.

Bibliography

St. Catherine
Description: “A woman is posing to an artist as St. Catherine, holding a wheel entwined with roses and a palm branch. Male figures in the background with bushy hair point to drawings on a wall on to which daylight falls through bottle-glass windows set high up in blue tiled recesses” (see Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 50).
Copyright: ©Tate Gallery, London 2001

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 114.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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