Dante Gabriel Rossetti

pre-raphaelite

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

Ligeia Siren, 1873

Drawing on paper with colored chalks, 80 x 55 cm, 31 x 22 in.

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OIL PAINTING: Ligeia Siren, 1873
Rossetti's Ligeia was evidently originally intended to be wholly uncovered, lacking the twist of fabric which now covers her pudenda. Rossetti offered the drawing to both of his best patrons, Frederick Leyland and William Graham, who each turned it down on the grounds of its nudity. Rossetti therefore adapted the figure's headgear to offer some modesty, writing to Charles Augustus Howell:
'the unpopular central detail will eventually be masked by a fillet of flying drapery coming from a vent twisted in the hair so as to render it saleable' (quoted Macleod 1984).
However, he did not find a buyer, and the same year it was made Rossetti gave it to Howell for arranging the sale of Dante's Dream at the Time of Beatrice's Death. The great fixer of the art world, Howell was unlikely to have been worried by the figure, for among his many dubious business pursuits he was rumoured to be a purveyor of pornographic visual material. Asan MP and Presbyterian, William Graham's rejection of th