Lot 441

Overall in Good Condition
- crease running along side join in sheets
- crease top centre, running from join in sheet
- crease lower right (below protagonist's shoe)
- indent to sheet top left (above protagonist's hands)
- stains consistent with foxing over sheets
- stains on protogist's hands
- possible scaling bottom right corner


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Artist's studio sale, Christie's, 12 May 1883, lot 21 (£18 18s);
With Thos. Agnew & Sons as 'The Blessed Damozel, 19th May 1883, stock no. 2656, sold for 1900 guineas to J.D Perrins;
James Dyson Perrins, thence by descent to Charles William Dyson Perrins, thence to wife Florence Winfred Midwood Perrins;
By who's estate sold Christie's, London, 17 June 1969, lot 99 (£336);
2nd Earl of Gowrie;
Sotheby's Belgravia, 19 March 1979, lot 5;
With Roy Miles Gallery, London;
With Nicholas Bagshawe;
Christie's, 24 November 1998, lot 161;
With Nevil Keating Pictures, London;
Acquired from the above

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13 Jan - 11 Mar 1973; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 29 Mar - 6 May 1973
The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts, Tate Gallery, London, 16 Oct 1997-4 Jan 1998; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 30 Jan - 26 Apr 1998; Van Gough Museum Amsterdam, 15 May - 30 Aug 1998
Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H Schaeffer, Brigham Young, University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, 15 Feb - 16 Aug 2008
The John H Schaeffer Collection of Victorian and European Art, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, 26 Aug 2009 - 28 Feb 2010

Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A catalogue raisonne, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971, p. 234, no 10
Masterpieces of Victorian Art from the John and Julie Schaeffer Collection and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collections, exhibit. cat., Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp78-79