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Details
- Date
- 1881
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.7 x 71.5 cm stretcher; 118.0 x 115.6 x 14.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., "EJP (artist's monogram) 1881".
- Credit
- Purchased 1968
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- OB2.1968
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sir Edward John Poynter
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 11 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1881, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1881–1881
London International exhibition, 1885, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1885–1885
Collection of oil paintings and watercolour drawings, the property of A.B. Triggs, Esq. Yass. N.S.W., Exhibition Venue Unknown, , circa 1925–circa 1925
Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Jun 1975–20 Jul 1975
Victorian Olympians, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 12 Aug 1975–14 Sep 1975
Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 Sep 1975–26 Oct 1975
Unknown, Russian exhibition 1990, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1990–1990
Queens & Sirens: archaeology in 19th century art and design, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 26 Sep 1998–01 Nov 1998
Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001
Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 07 Dec 2001–03 Feb 2002
Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Mar 2002–12 May 2002
Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 30 May 2002–28 Jul 2002
Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, 24 Aug 2002–24 Nov 2002
Femmes Fatales 1860-1910, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, 19 Jan 2003–04 May 2003
Femmes Fatales 1860-1910, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium, 17 May 2003–17 Aug 2003
A fine possession: jewellery and identity, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, 24 Sep 2014–20 Jun 2016
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Patricia Crawford, History and legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, 3 (illus.).
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 155 (illus.).
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Renée Free and Peter Laverty, Victorian Olympians, Sydney, 1975, 24-25, 48 (colour illus.). cat.no. 29
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Lee Glazer and Linda Merrill (Editors), Palaces of art: Whistler and the art worlds of aestheticism, Washington D.C., 2013, 126 (colour illus.). fig.6
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Bettany Hughes and Jonathan Cape, Helen of Troy: goddess, princess, whore, 2005, (colour illus.). fig. 22
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Alison Inglis, Queens & sirens: archaeology in 19th century art and design, 'The Past is not a Foreign Country', pg. 4-5, Geelong, 1998, 5, 11, 16 (colour illus.). cat.no. 7, plate 4
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 147. cat.no. 1784
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Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp and Groninger Museum, Femmes Fatales 1860-1910, Belgium, 2003, 92, 93 (colour illus.).
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Peter Raissis, Look, 'Drawing to painting', Sydney, Feb 2024-Mar 2024, pp 52–55; p 54, col illus pp 5 (detail), 55.
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Ruskin, Art of England, 103.
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Angus Trumble (Curator), Love and Death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001-2002, 164, 165 (colour illus.).
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Author Unknown, Collection of oil paintings and watercolour drawings, the property of A.B. Triggs, Esq. Yass, N.S.W., circa 1925, (illus.).
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Provenance
Lord Hillingdon, circa 1886, England
Sotheby's London, 29 Feb 1932-01 Mar 1932, London/England, Purchased by Triggs
Arthur Bryant Triggs, 01 Mar 1932-1936, Yass/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased from Sotheby's London, 29 February - 1 March 1932
A.B. Triggs Estate, 1936-Sep 1945, Australia, Sale by James R. Lawson auctioneers, 11-14 September 1945, lot no. 608
Sir Roy McCaughey, Sep 1945-1968, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased by the AGNSW from Sir Roy and Lady McCaughey 1968. Purchased by Sir Roy and Lady McCaughey from Lawson's Auctions, 11-14 September 1945, lot no. 608.