“Joli Coeur” (from French - “a kind heart, also a gentle appeal to an object of love or a woman”) - a painting by the English pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , created in 1867 ; currently the work is in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery .
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | ||
| Joli Coeur . 1867 | ||
| Joli coeur | ||
| Mahogany oil. 38.1 × 30.2 cm | ||
| Manchester Art Gallery , Manchester | ||
| ( inv. ) | ||
The model for the picture was Ellen Smith [1] . The picture shows a flirty young woman on a dark green background. With her left hand she holds an unbuttoned dress, under which a white lower shirt is visible, and in her right hand she grasped a red-gold necklace with a heart-shaped pendant, equipped with a bracelet around her wrist [2] . Her dark red hair is decorated with a hairpin in the form of a spiral inlaid with pearls [2] . The same hairpin can be seen in other paintings by Rossetti - “ Christmas Carol ”, “ Monna Bath ”, “ Mariana ”, “ Gazebo in the Meadow ”, “ Beatrice ”. Her dress and jewelry of the girl in a single red and gold palette. In the upper left corner of the picture is the inscription Joli Coeur , in the upper right - Rossetti's monogram and the indication of the year (1867) [2] . Virginia Sertis, compiler of the A Catalog Raisonné, noted that the pose and face of the model are similar to the girl on the left from the picture “ Beloved ” (Ellen Smith also posed for this image), so she suggested that “Joli Coeur” was created on the basis of the old sketch for “Beloved” [1] . Initially, the work was bought by William Graham, but later it was acquired by industrialist William Turner [1] . The artist’s brother, critic William Michael Rossetti , says that this is the only Rossetti work that William Graham “parted with” [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Joli Coeur . Rossetti Archive .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Joli Coeur . Manchester Art Gallery.
- ↑ William Michael Rossetti. Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer . - Cassell & Company, Limited, 1889. - P. 76.