Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1833-1898
The Altar of Hymen, 1874
Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold and silver and bodycolour, on vellum laid down on paper
37 x 26.7 cm., 14 5/8 x 10½ in.
Signed with initials 'E.B.J.' (lower right) and inscribed 'AM/FEB XXVI/MDCCCLXXIV' (within a cartouche on the altar)
WB4677
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Given to Amy Graham, daughter of William Graham (one of E.B.J most consistent patrons), on her marriage to Kenneth Muir-Mackenzie in 1874;Thence by descent to Sir Kenneth Muir-Mackenzie, K.C.B. (1845-1930);
Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 20 June 1972, lot 65;
Private Collection, The Hon. Mrs Mark Hambourg;
Hartnoll & Eyre, London (their Catalogue Twenty-five), 1972, no. 8;
Private Collection;
Christies, London, 17 June 2014, Lot 5;
Private Collection (Purchased from the above)
Exhibitions
London, New Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart, 1898-9, no. 25;Paris, Galerie Du Luxembourg, Burne-Jones et l'influence des préraphaélites, March - April 1972, no. 8;
Bern, Kunstmuseum, and Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Myths and Mysteries: Symbolism and Swiss Artists, 2013-4, no. 192
Literature
Burne-Jones’s autograph work record (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), 1874, (under 1874);Sir Philip Burne-Jones, The Work of Edward Burne-Jones: Ninety-one Photogravures directly reproduced from the Original Paintings, London, 1901, p. 28, no. 89;
Fortunée de Lisle, Burne-Jones, London, 1904, p. 91;
M. Harrison and B. Waters, Burne-Jones, London, 1973, p. 116, fig. 166;
Peter Nahum, Prices of Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, 1976;
C. Sonderegger, ‘Allegories of Time’ in Myths and Mysteries: Symbolism and Swiss Artists, Kunstmuseum, Bern, and Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, exh. 2013-14, cat. pp. 270, 277, no. 192 (illustrated);
Christof Sonderegger, Allegories of Time, in Myths and Mysteries: Symbolism and Swiss Artists, 2013, pp. 270, 277, no. 192 (illustrated)
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