The Marriage at Cana

Details

ROBERT ANNING BELL, R.A. (1863-1933)
The Marriage at Cana
signed and dated 'R. An. Bell/ 1911' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed '[T]he Marriage/ at Cana./ R. An. Bell' (on a label on the reverse of the frame)
termpera on silk wrapped around a panel
15 ½ x 11 in. (39.4 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

with Abbott & Holder, London, October 1975, where purchased for the present collection.

Literature

A. Meynell, Mary the Mother of Jesus, London, 1912, illustrated facing p. 100.

Exhibited

London, Christie's, New English Art Club Centenary Exhibition, 27 August - 17 September 1986, no. 56.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, 9 February - 9 April 1989, no. 245.

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Lot Essay

This is one of the illustrations that Bell made for Alice Meynell’s Mary, the Mother of Jesus, 1912. It can be compared with Bell’s Diploma work The Women going to the Sepulchre, dated 1912, which shares a similar colour scheme. The influence of Masaccio and Florentine frescoes is apparent.

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