Bottles
Date1848
Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1828–1882)
MediumOil on paper mounted on wood panel
Dimensions14 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. (37.5 × 34.3 cm)
frame: 23 1/8 × 22 in. (58.7 × 55.9 cm)
frame: 23 1/8 × 22 in. (58.7 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-24
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextRossetti painted the still life in the foreground of this painting while under the tutelage of Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893). The female figure in the background was probably added in the 1860s. Her facial features suggest it is Fanny Cornforth, a model who was “discovered” in 1856 while Rossetti and others were attending the London city-wide fete celebrating the return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimean War.