Saint Barbara
1866/1870
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Artist, British, 1833 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
egg tempera with oil glazes (?) and shell gold over charcoal and graphite on paper; mounted to canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of Professor William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
overall: 95.3 x 41.3 cm (37 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1989.58.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist; by gift to Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [1845-1925], née Louisa Macdonald, England; by inheritance to Earl Stanley Baldwin [1867-1947], England; (Durlacher Brothers, New York); sold 1964 to Professor William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA; gift 1989 to the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 160-161, color repro.
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 52.
2006
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007
Bibliography
1975
Sewter, A.C. The Stained Glass of William Morris. London, 1975: p.41-2.
1987
Ina Taylor, Victorian Sisters, Bethesda, MD: 1987, p.106.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 160.
1993
NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 52.
Inscriptions
by later hand on label affixed to stretcher, lower left verso in ink: Water colour drawing of / S. Barbara, by Edward Burne-Jones in 1870
Wikidata ID
Q64631835