Proserpine (Rossetti)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1874
The story
Proserpine (also Proserpina or Persephone) is an oil painting on canvas by British Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was made in 1874 and is now in the collection of the Tate Britain. Rossetti painted at least eight versions of the same subject from 1871 until 1882, the year of his death. Early versions were promised to Charles Augustus Howell.
The painting discussed in this article is the seventh version of Prosperine, which was commissioned by Frederick Richards Leyland. This painting is in the Tate Britain, but a very similar version of the subject is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
- Artist
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Date
- 1874
- Collection
- Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
- Movement
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 125.1 × 61 cm
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