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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Bocca Baciata

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Description	Italian-English painter, poet and translator
Date of birth/death	12 May 1828	9 April 1882
Location of birth/death	London	United Kingdom
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q186748 VIAF: 41848725 ISNI: 0000000121296670 ULAN: 500022594 LCCN: n79117985 NLA: 35463837 WorldCat

Title

Bocca Baciata

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Date

1859

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 32.1 cm (12.6 in); width: 27 cm (10.6 in)

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

	Native name	Museum of Fine Arts Boston
	Location	Boston, Massachusetts
	Coordinates	42° 20′ 22″ N, 71° 05′ 39″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.mfa.org
	Authority file	: Q49133 VIAF: 151846308 ISNI: 0000000122918830 ULAN: 500305147 LCCN: n79058410 NLA: 36527557 WorldCat

Current location

Musical Instruments Alcove (Gallery 103C)

Accession number

1980.261

Object history

1859, commissioned by George Price Boyce (b. 1826 - d. 1897), Chelsea, England^[1]; July 2, 1897, posthumous Boyce sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 211, to Dunthorne^[2]. 1897, Agnew, London, and Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849 - d. 1919), London^[3]; 1897, ownership passed fully to Murray; 1906, sold by Murray to Mary Pratt (Mrs. Edward D.) Brandegee (b. 1871 - d. 1956), Brookline; by descent to her daughter, Martina Brandegee Lawrence (b. 1906 - d. 1959), Brookline; by inheritance to her husband, James Lawrence (b. 1907 - d. 1995), Brookline; 1980, gift of James Lawrence to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 18, 1980)

↑ Boyce, an architect, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite society, was also a close friend and patron of Rossetti. He commissioned this painting from Rossetti on July 23, 1859 and it was completed on October 13. He lent it to the "Exhibition of Old Masters," Royal Academy, London, 1883, cat. no. 309.
↑ The name of the buyer is recorded by Algernon Graves, "Art Sales," vol. 3 (London, 1921), p. 104. He may have been an agent for Agnew or Murray.
↑ Charles Fairfax Murray was a partner with Agnew and purchased paintings for the firm. According to Barbara Bryant, in "The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, & Watts: Symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910" (exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London 1997), p. 96, cat. no. 2, the painting was owned jointly by Agnew and Murray until 1897, and Murray sold it to Mrs. Brandegee in 1906.

Exhibition history

Hogarth Club, probably 1860;
Royal Academy, 1883 (no.309);
Royal Academy Winter, 1906 (no.126);
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1923;
Agnew Victorian Painting, 1837-87 Nov. 1961 (no.55);
Tate Britain, Symbolism in Britain, 1997;
National Gallery of Art, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, February 17 – May 19, 2013 (online)

Credit line

Gift of James Lawrence

Inscriptions

Artist's monogram bottom left:

G C D R

Quotation verso top center:

Bocca baciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnova come fa la luna. / Boccaccio

[The mouth that has been kissed loses not its freshness; still it renews itself even as does the moon.]

Notes

Model: Fanny Cornforth

References

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, online database, as Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed)

English: Rossetti Archive

Italiano: Federica Mazzara, Lettere A Colori, NINES, p. 15

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[1] Boyce, an architect, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite society, was also a close friend and patron of Rossetti. He commissioned this painting from Rossetti on July 23, 1859 and it was completed on October 13. He lent it to the "Exhibition of Old Masters," Royal Academy, London, 1883, cat. no. 309.

[2] The name of the buyer is recorded by Algernon Graves, "Art Sales," vol. 3 (London, 1921), p. 104. He may have been an agent for Agnew or Murray.

[3] Charles Fairfax Murray was a partner with Agnew and purchased paintings for the firm. According to Barbara Bryant, in "The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, & Watts: Symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910" (exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London 1997), p. 96, cat. no. 2, the painting was owned jointly by Agnew and Murray until 1897, and Murray sold it to Mrs. Brandegee in 1906.

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