Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_Bocca_Baciata_1859.png
Summary
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Bocca Baciata | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q186748
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Title |
Bocca Baciata
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1859
date QS:P571,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium | oil on panel medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 32.1 cm (12.6 in); width: 27 cm (10.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,27.0U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q49133
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Current location |
Musical Instruments Alcove (Gallery 103C)
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Accession number |
1980.261
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Object history |
1859, commissioned by George Price Boyce (b. 1826 - d. 1897), Chelsea, England [1] ; July 2, 1897, posthumous Boyce sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 211, to Dunthorne [2] . 1897, Agnew, London, and Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849 - d. 1919), London [3] ; 1897, ownership passed fully to Murray; 1906, sold by Murray to Mary Pratt (Mrs. Edward D.) Brandegee (b. 1871 - d. 1956), Brookline; by descent to her daughter, Martina Brandegee Lawrence (b. 1906 - d. 1959), Brookline; by inheritance to her husband, James Lawrence (b. 1907 - d. 1995), Brookline; 1980, gift of James Lawrence to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 18, 1980)
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Exhibition history |
Hogarth Club, probably 1860;
Royal Academy, 1883 (no.309); Royal Academy Winter, 1906 (no.126); Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1923; Agnew Victorian Painting, 1837-87 Nov. 1961 (no.55); Tate Britain, Symbolism in Britain , 1997; National Gallery of Art, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900 , February 17 – May 19, 2013 ( online ) |
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Credit line | Gift of James Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Artist's monogram bottom left:
G C D R
Quotation
verso
top center:
Bocca baciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnova come fa la luna. / Boccaccio
[The mouth that has been kissed loses not its freshness; still it renews itself even as does the moon.]
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Notes | Model: Fanny Cornforth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, online database
, as Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed)
English:
Rossetti Archive
Italiano:
Federica Mazzara,
Lettere A Colori
, NINES,
p. 15
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Source/Photographer | Scanned from Treuherz, J., Prettejohn, E., Becker, E. Dante Gabriel Rossetti . London: Thames & Hudson (2003). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
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