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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Merciless Lady  wikidata:Q105744044 reasonator:Q105744044
Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti  (1828–1882)  wikidata:Q186748 s:en:Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti q:en:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alternative names
Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death 12 May 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 9 April 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London United Kingdom
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q186748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Merciless Lady
label QS:Len,"The Merciless Lady"
label QS:Lde,"Die gnadenlose Dame"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: (see Peter Nahum) In The Merciless Lady we see a young lover torn between two maidens: a pale titian-haired angel singing sweetly and a darker raven-haired beauty whose hand he tightly clasps. Here is Rossetti at his most intimately revealing. In love with Janey and haunted by the memory of Lizzie, and thus distracted, unable to give his all. Lizzie's glass is empty, as is almost Rossetti's but Janey's is full and yet to be tasted. Rossetti's stability came from Fanny Cornforth and his distraction from various models but the two great loves of his life were Lizzie Siddal and Janey Morris.
Date 1865
date QS:P571,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor and gouache paint on paper
Dimensions 31 × 31 cm (12.2 × 12.2 in)
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Current location
Charles Handley-Read
Object history
  • acquired by G P Boyce from the artist
  • 1 July 1897: purchased by Charles Fairfax Murray at Boyce Sale, Christie's, lot number 154
  • Sir William Mills
  • Francis W Nicholls
  • Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read
  • Fine Art Society, London
  • Thomas Stainton
  • Peter Nahum, London
  • Private collection
    institution QS:P195,Q768717
Exhibition history
  • Birmingham, Fine Art Club, 1883, number 30
  • London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1923, number 118
  • London, The Royal Academy, 1972, number B127
  • London, The Fine Art Society, The Aesthetic Movement and the Cult of Japan, 1972, number 49
  • London, The Royal Academy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Painter and Poet, 1973, number 312
  • London, The Fine Art Society, The Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings from the Handley-Read Collection, 1974, number 67
  • Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Rossetti, 1990, number 31, illustrated in colour
  • Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery & Kurume, Ishibashi Museum of Art, Rossetti, 1991, number 31
  • Takamatsu, Takematsu City Museum, Le Symbolisme en Europe, October-December 1996
  • Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art & Himeji, Himeji City Museum, Le Symbolisme en Europe, December 1996- March 1997
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Artist's monogram and date bottom right:

DGR 1865
Text verso:
The property (since Jany 26 1865) of George P Boyce of West House, 33 Glebe Place, Chelsea
on a label
References Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries
Rossetti Archive
Source/Photographer Bridgeman Art Library: Object 468076

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