Ellen Terry at the piano

细节

George Frederic Watts, O.M., R.A. (1817-1904)
Ellen Terry at the piano
inscribed 'Ellen Terry' (lower right)
pencil and stump
12 x 8¾ in. (31 x 22 cm.)

来源

Lilian Chapman, the adopted daughter of the artist, and by descent in the family.

注意事项

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拍品专文

The present drawing is of Watts' first wife, the actress Ellen Terry, whom he married in 1864. The most famous image of Ellen Terry is perhaps the painting that Watts made of her immediately after their marriage, in which she wears her wedding dress, becoming almost entwined in the dense camellia bush that fills the rest of the picture.

In order to create the soft shadows produced by the folds of his wife's dress in the present drawing, Watts used the medium stump, a coil of leather, felt or paper with blunt points at both ends used to rub on chalk, pencil, pastel or charcoal.