Vivien

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Head and shoulders of a young woman, in profile facing to the left, her hands resting on an ornate green and white tiled parapet. Her white, fleshy throat forms the centre of the composition. She wears a luxurious gilt embroidered shawl with an interlocking geometric pattern and an edging of tiny pearls, and a string of heavy red beads, possibly carnelian, around her neck, with matching red earrings. Her thick dark wavy hair flows down her back. She holds a sprig of poisonous flowering daphne in her left hand, which she rests on her other hand, which is palm down on the parapet. An apple and a red poppy lie on the ledge in front of her, with some fallen leaves and petals from the sprig in her hand. She is set against a backdrop of radiating peacock feathers.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Vivien

Date

1863

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 64 x W 52.5 cm

Accession number

1925.70

Acquisition method

purchased from E. Mitchell Crosse, 1925

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed blc: 1863

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