Frederick Sandys, The Coral Necklace
Fund, 1997.7 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Frederick Sandys

The Coral Necklace

1871

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
black, brown, and red chalk
Dimensions
55.9 × 39.2 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-193509

Closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Frederick Sandys was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and played an active role in the bohemian artistic, literary, and theatrical circles of the day in London. This is a portrait of Mary Emma Jones, the artist’s favorite model, mistress, and mother of his nine children. An extraordinarily skilled draftsman, here he worked in tone rather than line, delicately drawing in chalk on a rough textured sheet and leaving the low points of the paper untouched to produce a stippled, hazy effect.

Provenance

Fund, 1997.7

Registry history

  • 1871 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings

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