Found (study for head of woman)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1853 - 1857
Physical Description
Medium: pencil with pen and ink
Dimensions: 22.2 x 19 cm
Production Description
Production Date: 1853 - 1857
Exhibition History: London, Leger Galleries,
British Paintings,
Watercolours, and Drawings
, April 1995
Provenance
Current Location: Private Collection
Note: Sold at Sotheby's 9 December 2008 (lot 103)
Archival History: Simeon Solomon (gift of the artist; thence to Frederick Hollyer (1887) and
James Gray (1894); Private Collectors (1894-1989, 1989-2002, 2002-)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This study for the head of the woman in DGR's uncompleted painting Found was executed in the mid-1850s. The unknown model is the same who sat for the two studies now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery collection, one that came to the museum from Hollyer and Fairfax Murray, the other from Fanny Cornforth and Fairfax Murray. This study is not recorded by Surtees.
Surtees surmises that the model was one of Alexander Munro's maids, but others have suggested that she was an acquaintance of Ford Madox Brown.
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