The Virgin Swooning [recto], 1844

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 47.5 x 30 cm (18 11/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William B. O'Neal

Accession Number

1987.73.1.a

Artists / Makers

Ford Madox Brown (artist) British, 1821 - 1893

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: by Madox Brown; by later hand, center verso in graphite: Nr 20 / 20 Imp Mat

Provenance

Artist's sale at T.G. Wharton, 1894; Frederic Shields; Ernestine Mills by 1929; (The Leicester Galleries); (Durlacher Brothers); acquired 1964 by Professor William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA; gift 1987 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Durlacher Brothers
Leicester Galleries
O'Neal, William B., Professor

Exhibition History

1923: Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period, Tate Gallery, London, 1923, recto only.

1949: The Victorian Romantics, The Leicester Galleries, London, 1949, recto only.

1982: La Bella Mano: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Decorative Arts, The Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1982, no. 29, recto only.

1985: The English Avant-Garde of the 1880s: Aesthetes, Rebels, and Feminists, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, 1985, recto only.

1993: Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 49, as Study of the Virgin Mary from "The Ascension", recto only.

1996: Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996, recto only.