Burne Jones (Edward, 1833-1898). Study for the figure of Perseus in The Rock of Doom, The Perseus Cycle, black and purple chalk with traces of pencil on wove paper, with numerals in pencil to lower right corner '15.15' and '16', sheet size 26.8 x 15.1 cm (10 5/8 x 5 7/8 ins), framed (48.5 x 35 cm), backboard with various labels, including Sotheby's and Peter Nahum Ltd, 5 Ryder Street, London, latter stating family provenance (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Mrs J.W. Mackail, the artist's daughter; Sotheby's, London, Early English Drawings and Victorian Watercolours, 21st September 1988, lot 416; Sotheby's, Cheltenham, 11th November 1998, lot 18 (label to verso). Margaret Mackail (1866-1953) was the third and final child of Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones and their only daughter. She married John William Mackail (1859-1945), Virgil scholar, educational reformer and official biographer of William Morris In 1875 the politician Lord Arthur Balfour commissioned Edward Burne-Jones to create a series of paintings for the music room of his London home. The subject was to be a re-telling of the classical story of Perseus and the slaying of Medusa, as related in William Morris’s epic poem ‘The Earthly Paradise’. Burne-Jones worked on the project for ten years but it was never completed. Southampton Art Gallery has ten full-size cartoon studies in gouache for the Cycle, but only four of the oil paintings were finished, with one other partially completed. The eighth painting, 'The Rock of Doom', which was one of those completed - now in Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany - depicts the moment Perseus discovers and falls in love with Andromeda, who, having been cursed by Poseidon, is chained to a rock awaiting her fate.
Burne Jones (Edward, 1833-1898). Study for the figure of Perseus in The Rock of Doom, The Perseus Cycle, black and purple chalk with traces of pencil on wove paper, with numerals in pencil to lower right corner '15.15' and '16', sheet size 26.8 x 15.1 cm (10 5/8 x 5 7/8 ins), framed (48.5 x 35 cm), backboard with various labels, including Sotheby's and Peter Nahum Ltd, 5 Ryder Street, London, latter stating family provenance (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Mrs J.W. Mackail, the artist's daughter; Sotheby's, London, Early English Drawings and Victorian Watercolours, 21st September 1988, lot 416; Sotheby's, Cheltenham, 11th November 1998, lot 18 (label to verso). Margaret Mackail (1866-1953) was the third and final child of Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones and their only daughter. She married John William Mackail (1859-1945), Virgil scholar, educational reformer and official biographer of William Morris In 1875 the politician Lord Arthur Balfour commissioned Edward Burne-Jones to create a series of paintings for the music room of his London home. The subject was to be a re-telling of the classical story of Perseus and the slaying of Medusa, as related in William Morris’s epic poem ‘The Earthly Paradise’. Burne-Jones worked on the project for ten years but it was never completed. Southampton Art Gallery has ten full-size cartoon studies in gouache for the Cycle, but only four of the oil paintings were finished, with one other partially completed. The eighth painting, 'The Rock of Doom', which was one of those completed - now in Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany - depicts the moment Perseus discovers and falls in love with Andromeda, who, having been cursed by Poseidon, is chained to a rock awaiting her fate.
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