Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_The_Bower_Garden.jpg

Summary

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : The Bower Garden (

)

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description	Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death	12 May 1828	9 April 1882
Location of birth/death	London	United Kingdom
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q186748 VIAF : 41848725 ISNI : 0000000121296670 ULAN : 500022594 LCCN : n79117985 NLA : 35463837 WorldCat

Title

The Bower Garden

Object type

painting

Description

English: «Two women in a garden face each other. The one on the right is drinking from a long glass offered to her by a serving-woman in a blue smock. . . . Espalier trees against a red-brick wall provide the background». (Virginia Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings – A Catalogue Raisonneé , 1971, no. 112, 2 volumes, vol. I., p.68)

Date

1859

Medium

watercolor , laid down

Dimensions

height: 36 cm (14.1 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in)

Collection

Private collection

Object history

Thomas Edward Plint of Leeds, his sale Christie’s, 7 March 1862, lot 159 to James Leathart for £22. 10s;
James Leathart of Bracken Dene, Low Fell, Gateshead, his sale Christie’s, 19 June 1897, lot 9 unsold and by descent through the Leathart family

Exhibition history

Royal Academy, 1883, no.367;
Goupil Gallery, London, A Pre-Raphaelite Collection , 1896, no.17;
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Leathart Collection , 1968, no.59;
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pre-Raphaelites, Painters and Patrons in the North East , 1989-1990, no.91;
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Ishibashi Museum of Art, Japan, Rossetti , 1990-1991, no.15

Inscriptions

Artist's monogram and date bottom left:

DGR 1859

Notes

Model: The serving woman in the blue smock is Fanny Cornforth

References

Rossetti Archive

Source/Photographer

Sotheby's, London, 13 November 2012, lot 4

Licensing

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The author died in 1882, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

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Captions

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depicts

Fanny Cornforth

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