At this date c.1873, as the study for the skirt of Daphne indicates, Burne-Jones was also investigating psychological states in his coverage of the story of The Masque of Cupid. The present profile head tallies with those found there. In The Pilgrim at the Garden of Idleness, he also explored the mental states of various Vices that occupied the niches in the wall. This concern for understanding the breadth of human experience, came about through the upheaval in his personal emotional life caused by his extra-marital affair. Spes and Daphne, study for a needlework frieze Romaunt of the Rose for the dining room at Rounton Grange, Yorkshire - Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods) 2019-2019 BRITISH ART: VICTORIAN, PRE-RAPHAELITE & BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST ART 12 DECEMBER 2019 Lot 108 unsold
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