Dante Gabriel Rossetti

pre-raphaelite

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paintings 1828 - 1882 Painter, Poet, England, Pre-Raphaelite

La Donna della Finestra [The Lady of the Window], 1879

Oil on canvas, 39.76 x 29.25 inches [101 x 74.3 cm]

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

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OIL PAINTING: La Donna della Finestra [The Lady of the Window], 1879
In the 1850s Rosseti met Elizabeth Siddal who became his model for most of his paintings , lover and in 1860 his wife. The brief marriage ended tragically when she took an overdose of laudanum. Her death provoked another change in Rosseti's art, with sensuous portrayals of women painted in luxurious oils replacing literary themes as the focus of his painting.