Lady Lilith
Date1866-1868 (altered 1872-1873)
Artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1828–1882)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 × 34 in. (99.1 × 86.4 cm)
frame: 53 1/4 × 48 in. (135.3 × 121.9 cm)
frame: 53 1/4 × 48 in. (135.3 × 121.9 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-29
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn the earliest version of this painting, begun in the late 1860s, the model for the central figure was Fanny Cornforth, who was Rossetti’s mistress for a time. However, the patron for whom it was painted objected to the overly sensuous nature of Cornforth’s figure and asked that it be altered. Rossetti reworked the composition using a new model, Alexa Wilding. Wilding was a dressmaker whom Rossetti apparently discovered one day while walking in London.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1856-1857
