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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.188
People
Edward Burne-Jones, British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)
Title
Study for "The Sleeping Beauty": Head of a Maiden
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1885
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230035

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.1 x 43.5 cm (20 1/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
framed: 61.3 x 54 x 3.8 cm (24 1/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott and Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1930, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.188
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Malcolm Bell, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Newnes' Art Library (London, England, 1910), fig. 40
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 36, p. 48
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Exhibition History

  • [Burne-Jones exhibition], Berlin Gallery, 01/01/1898 - 12/31/1898
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
  • Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002

Verification Level

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