Proserpine
$500
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882)
Proserpine
signed and dated ‘D. G. ROSSETTI fecit anno 1878’ (on a scroll lower left) and inscribed with a sonnet in Italian (on a cartellino upper right)
pencil, watercolor and bodycolor heightened with gum arabic on paper mounted on a wooden stretcher
30 ½ x 14 ¾ in. (77.5 x 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1878.
in the original frame designed by Rossetti
