“Woman in Yellow” (also “Aurelia” ) is a watercolor by the English artist -Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti , created in 1863 . At the moment, the work is in the collection of the Tate Gallery .
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ||
| Woman in yellow . 1863 | ||
| Woman in yellow | ||
| Watercolor on paper. 40.6 × 30.5 cm | ||
| British Tate Gallery , London | ||
| ( inv. and ) | ||
The model for watercolors was the lover of William Holman Hunt Annie Miller [1] [2] . Unlike Holman Hunt ( Awakened Shame ), Rossetti depicted a more poetic and romantic image of Annie, in a manner similar to the works of Renaissance painters [2] . “Woman in Yellow” can be attributed to the group of portraits of Rossetti, where he depicts the beauty of the body - “ Beloved Fazio ”, “ Lady Lilith ”, “ Monna Bath ” and others (as opposed to the beauty of the soul) [2] . Annie Miller later posed for Rossetti for the image of Elena the Troian.
Watercolor belongs to the period when Dante Gabriel Rossetti studied color as a source of composition of the work [1] . The art historian Henry Marillier called this work a spectacular sketch and especially noted the subtle color transitions against the background of watercolors and the model’s hair [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Woman in Yellow . Rossetti Archive .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Woman in Yellow . Tate Gallery.
- ↑ Marillier, Henry Currie. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an illustrated memorial of his art and life . - George Bell and Sons, Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham and Co., 1899 .-- P. 131.