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拍品專文
This is an unusual work by John William Godward and, as Professor Vern Swanson comments: '...remarkable [in the artist's] oeuvre for its introspective sensitivity'. The colours are rich and deep; the composition reminiscent of Leighton and Bouguereau.
Godward's model is swathed to protect herself from the cold, and advances into the frosty morning, displacing snow with a tentative foot. The work is testimony to Godward's attention to detail: the rim of snow along her shoe, the accumulations in the slim boughs of the climbing plant; the way her face is shaded by her overhanging hair and hood - these details lend the work subtlety and sophistication.
This is Godward's only winter picture, and belongs to a project in which he set out to depict all four seasons. Autumn, also dating from 1900 and of almost exactly the same dimensions, depicts a girl in an auburn-coloured gown picking grapes from trailing vines (see V. Swanson, John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, 1997, pp. 68, 201).
We are grateful to Professor Vern Swanson for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.
Godward's model is swathed to protect herself from the cold, and advances into the frosty morning, displacing snow with a tentative foot. The work is testimony to Godward's attention to detail: the rim of snow along her shoe, the accumulations in the slim boughs of the climbing plant; the way her face is shaded by her overhanging hair and hood - these details lend the work subtlety and sophistication.
This is Godward's only winter picture, and belongs to a project in which he set out to depict all four seasons. Autumn, also dating from 1900 and of almost exactly the same dimensions, depicts a girl in an auburn-coloured gown picking grapes from trailing vines (see V. Swanson, John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, 1997, pp. 68, 201).
We are grateful to Professor Vern Swanson for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.