現場拍賣 7635British Art on Paper
William Holman Hunt, O.M., R.W.S. (1827-1910)
拍品 77

William Holman Hunt, O.M., R.W.S. (1827-1910)

Two studies for 'One Step to the Deathbed' and for 'The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro'

已結束2008年12月10日

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William Holman Hunt, O.M., R.W.S. (1827-1910)
Two studies for 'One Step to the Deathbed' and for 'The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro'
one with inscription '1846' (lower right)
pencil, one with pen and black ink over a photograph by Frederick Hollyer
10¾ x 15 in. (27.3 x 38.1 cm.); and 6 7/8 x 11¼ in. (17.5 x 28.6 cm.) (2)

By descent in the artist's family to Mrs Elisabeth Burt; Sotheby's, London, 10 October 1985, part of lot 5.

專家說明

The studies in the present lot are related to Holman Hunt's illustrations to Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792-1822) poem Ginevra, which tells the tragic story of a young girl forced to marry the wealthy Gherardi rather than her lover Antonio. Ginevra dies of a broken heart on her marriage bed. In the present studies, the doctor holds Ginevra's wrist to see whether she has a pulse while a figure leans over her with a mirror to her lips in the hope of finding her breathing. Judith Bronkhurst (op. cit.) argues that in spite of the later inscription, '1846', added in the lower right corner of one sheet, these studies are stylistically more likely to date from circa 1847. The smaller figures at the right and bottom of the sheet are related to Hunt's painting The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro (1848; Guildhall Art Gallery, Corporation of London), a tale in which secret love has a happier conclusion.