Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - detail Il Ramoscello


1865
oil
Fogg Art Museum
The sitter was a portrait of William Graham's daughter Amy, later Lady Muir MacKenzie. Originally it was called Belle e Buona but was renamed in 1873 when Rossetti repainted it and added the new title. Much of these amendments were later removed but the title stuck.

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