Lot 11: DANTE  GABRIEL  ROSSETTI

1828-1882
JOAN  OF  ARC
signed  with  monogram  and  dated  1864  l.r.
watercolour  and  bodycolour  over  pencil
31  by  30cm.,  12¼  by  12in.

Probably London, Royal Academy, 1865, no. 447

H.C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, 1899, pp. 125-6, 137, 246, no. 126.
Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1971, vol. I, pp. 91-2, no. 162C.R.2.
Virginia Surtees, The Ludovisi Goddess: The Life of Louisa, Lady Ashburton, 1984, pp. 103, 112.

Commissioned by Lady Ashburton in 1864 and thence by descent to her grandson The Hon. Spencer Loch, and thence by further descent;
Christie's, London, 13 March 1973, lot 39, bought 'Agnew's' for 6,500gns.;
Thomas Agnew, London;
Christie's, London, 11 November 1999, lot 18;
Private collection