Study for "La Bella Mano"
Date1875
MediumColored chalks on paper
Dimensions39 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (99.7 x 72.4 cm)
frame: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
frame: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-85
On View
Not on viewthe model for the finished painting, “La Bella Mano”. Although titled a “study”, this drawing was executed after the oil painting of the same subject. Rossetti often made ‘replicas’ or copies of popular works which found ready buyers. Charles Fairfax Murray offered the painting to Samuel Bancroft in a letter. Unfortunately, the letter arrived four days after Bancroft’s death. However, his son, Joseph, purchased it anyway.
