The Virgin Swooning [recto]

1844

Ford Madox Brown

Artist, British, 1821 - 1893

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1987.73.1.a

Associated Artworks

Two Drapery Studies [verso]

Ford Madox Brown

1844

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64562114

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