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Lady Lilith is an oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti first painted in 1866–1868 using his mistress Fanny Cornforth as the model, then altered in 1872–73 to show the face of Alexa Wilding. [1] The subject is Lilith, who was, according to ancient Judaic myth, "the first wife of Adam " and is associated with the seduction of men and the ...
- 96.5 cm × 85.1 cm (38.0 in × 33.5 in)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- 1866–1868, 1872–73
- Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
References. Title: Lady Lilith. Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea) Artist: Henry Treffry Dunn (British, Truro 1838–1899 London) Date: 1867. Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) Dimensions: 20 3/16 X 17 5/16 in. (51.3 x 44 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1908.
Oct 14, 2023 · Rossetti, first painted Lady Lilith in 1866-1868 using Fanny Cornforth. However, in 1865 he met Alexa Wilding, who according to Rossetti brought out all the characteristic features of Lady Lilith. Rossetti described Alice’s beauty as more refined and able to express both virtue and vice evocative of the actual subject-Lady Lilith.
May 23, 2023 · The most influential depiction, however, wouldn’t come for some three decades more, when Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founder Gabriel Dante Rossetti completed his Lady Lilith in the mid-1860s ...
The painting is part of the double work that includes the companion sonnet Body's Beauty, which is the 1881 title of the work originally called “Lady Lilith” and then “Lilith” (in its 1868 and 1870 printings respectively). The double work should be compared with DGR's translation of a passage from Goethe (“Lilith—from Goethe”) and ...
May 2, 2022 · Lady Lilith is an oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti first painted in 1866–68 using his mistress Fanny Cornforth as the model, then altered in 1872–73 to show the face of Alexa Wilding. The subject is Lilith, who was, according to ancient Judaic myth, "the first wife of Adam" and is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of ...
When it was first seen and exhibited, Lilith's head was modelled on Fanny Cornforth, and that image is captured in two of the earliest and most important commentaries on the painting, by Swinburne and Stephens. Later, however, DGR painted out Fanny's head and replaced it with the head of Alexa Wilding. (These two favorite models represented for ...
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