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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Beata Beatrix
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Beata Beatrix, 1871–72. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000756

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    Beata Beatrix

    by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed on frame: JUN: DIE 9 ANNO 1290 (top left); QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS! (top right); MART: DIE 31 ANNO 1300 / VENI, SPONSA, DE LIBANO. (bottom)

    Provenance

    Commissioned by William Graham, London (1817-1885), 1871 [letter from Graham to the artist, Jan. 1, 1871; published in Garnett 2000]; sold, his estate sale, Christie's, London, Apr. 3, 1886, lot 116 as Beata Beatrice to MacKenzie [probably Kenneth Muir MacKenzie; according to annotated sale catalogue and Agnews Picture Stockbook, 1885–1891, no. 3861, National Gallery Research Centre, London; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Thomas Agnews and Sons, London, Sep. 1886 [Agnews Picture Stockbook, 1885–1891, no. 4196, National Gallery Research Centre, London; copy in curatorial object file and Agnews invoice, Sep. 24, 1886]; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (1854-1924), Chicago, Sep. 1886; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1925.

    Exhibition history

    London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Designs, and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, cat. 83. Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, Examples of the English Pre-Raphaelite School of Painters, including Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Madox-Brown and others, together with a Collection of the Works of William Blake, December 8, 1892, cat. 115. St. Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, see Official Catalogue of Exhibits: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, Department B: Art, Group 13, Loan Collection, 1904, cat. 115. Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Inaugural Loan Exhibition, May 31 – July 1, 1905, cat. 224. Toledo Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, January 17 – February 12, 1912, cat. 205 (ill.). Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Athenaeum, An Exhibition of Literature and Poetry in Painting since 1850, January 24 – February 14, 1933, cat. 61 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1 – November 1, 1933, cat. 274. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, A Survey of British Painting, May 10 – June 12, 1938, cat. 66 (ill.). Art Gallery of Toronto, An Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross, November 15 – December 15, 1940, cat. 81. Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Pre-Raphaelites: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their Associates, February 16 – March 22, 1964, cat. 70 (ill.), traveled to New York, Gallery of Modern Art, including the Huntington Hartford Collection, April 27 – May 31, 1964. Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, Museum of Art, Dante in Art, February 2 – March 14, 1965, Paintings cat. 7 (ill.). Denver Art Museum, Great Stories in Art, February 13 – March 27, 1966, p. 1 (ill.). Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, The Victorian Rebellion: A Loan Exhibition of Works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Their Contemporaries, September 12 – October 26, 1971, cat. 80 (ill.). Arts Club of Chicago, A Second Talent: Paintings and Drawings by Writers, November 15 – December 31, 1971, cat. 151. Houston, Rice Museum, Art Nouveau in Belgium and France, March 26 – June 27, 1976, cat. 14 (ill.), traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, August 28 – October 31, 1976. Providence, Rhode Island, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Ladies of Shalott: A Victorian Masterpiece and Its Contexts, An Exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University, February 23 – March 23, 1985, cat. 39 (ill.). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ackland Art Museum, A One-Picture Exhibition featuring Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix, on Loan from the Art Institute of Chicago, January 23 – April 25, 1993, no cat. Munich, Stadtlische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Der Kampf der Geschlechter: Der neue Mythos in der Kunst 1850-1930, March 8 – May 7, 1995, cat. 4 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, February 14 – April 26, 2009, cat. 137 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, November 7, 2009 – January 31, 2010, cat. 116 (ill.). San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, June 30 - September 30, 2018, pp. 99, plate 37; 275

    Publications

    “The Art Sales of 1886,” Art Journal 48 (1886), p. 306. William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer, (London, 1889), pp. 78-79. William Michael Rossetti, ed., Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family Letters with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti (London, 1895), vol. 2, pp. 238, 253, 256-57, 263-64, 279. Henry C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life (London, 1899), pp. 128-29, 154, 252, no. 248. Helen Rossetti Angeli, “The Life and Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti” (London, Art Journal, Easter Annual, 1902), pp. 14, 16 (ill.). Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art (St. Louis, 1904), p. 13, opp. p. 13 (ill.), p. 15. Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, “The Inaugural Loan Exhibition: Albright Art Gallery,” Academy Notes 1, 1 (June 1905), pp. 16, 34 (ill.). William A. Knight, Six Lectures on Some Nineteenth Century Artists, English and French (Chicago, 1909), p. 131, pl. 22. Ernestine Mills, The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields (London, 1912), p. 151. Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 13, 7, (October 1919), p. 98 (ill.). R.M.F., “The Charles L. Hutchinson Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 19, 9, (December 1925), pp. 102, 104 (ill.). Frank Jewett Mather, Modern Paintings (New York, 1927), pp. 74 (ill.), 75. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 90 (ill.), 169. Arnold Palmer, “English Survey in Pittsburgh: An Introduction to British Painting at the Carnegie,” Art News 36, part 2, (May 28, 1938), p. 14 (ill.). Oswald Doughty, A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London, 1960), pp. 474, 523, 619. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 404. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 196. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, eds., The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Oxford, 1965-1967), vol. 3: 1871-1876, pp. 951, 958, 964, 967, 969, 996, 998, 1003, 1053-55, 1057, 1059-60, 1063, 1067, 1087, 1119, 1130-31. Debra Mancoff, “A Vision of Beatrice: The Beata Beatrix as a symbol for the middle period of the artistic development of Dante Gabriel Rossetti” (Independent study paper, Northwestern University, 1979), pp. 2-3, 8, 12-14, 16-22, 25, fig. 2, fig. 13. Henry Treffry Dunn, Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Circle, or, Cheyne Walk Life, ed. Rosalie Mander (Westerham, 1984), p. 31-32. Debra Mancoff, “A Vision of Beatrice: D.G. Rossetti and the Beata Beatrix,” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 6 (November 1985), pp. 76, 80-82, 85 (ill.). Laurel Bradley, “Elizabeth Siddal: Drawn into the Pre-Raphaelite Circle,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, 2 (Chicago, 1992), pp. 137, 138, fig. 2. Beverly Taylor, “Beatrix/Creatrix: Elizabeth Siddal as Muse and Creator,” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies n.s. 4 (Spring 1995), pp. 30, 39, 42, 43, fig. 1. Eva Mendgen et al., In Perfect Harmony: Bild und Rahmen 1850 – 1920, exh. cat. (Van Gogh Museum/Kunstforum Wien Waanders Uitgevers, 1995), pp. 60, 62 (ill.), no. 44, 64. Jan Marsh, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet (London, 1999), pp. 448-49. Oliver Garnett, "The Letters and Collection of William Gahm: Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphael Collector," Walpole Society 62 (2000): 158-61, 198-203, 205-12, 215-18, 220, 229-30, 233-37,282-83 a4, 340, fig. 96. Eli Wilner, ed., The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame (San Francisco, 2000), pp. 61, 62, fig. 33. Jerome McGann, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must Be Lost (New Haven, 2000), pp. 18, 97-100. David Wayne Thomas, “Replicas and Originality: Picturing Agency in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester,” Victorian Studies 43, 1 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 70-71; 73-74; 75, fig. 3; 81-82. Laurence Brogniez, Préraphaélisme et Symbolisme: Peinture littéraire et image poétique (Paris, 2003), pp. 84; 95; 106, fig. 9; 293. Lucinda Hawksley, Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (London, 2004), p. 208. J.B. Bullen, Rossetti: Painter & Poet (London, 2011), pp. 177, 247-248. Melissa E. Buron, “Truth and Beauty Reframed: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Sources of Inspiration,” in Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, exh. cat., (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Legion of Honor; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018) pp. 20 Cassandra Sciortino, “’The Central Man of All the World’: Dante and the Pre-Raphaelites in the Nineteenth Century,” in Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, exh. cat., (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Legion of Honor; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018) pp. 83 Margaretta S. Frederick, “Patrons and Painters: Creative Synergy in the Aesthetic Movement,” in Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, exh. cat., (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Legion of Honor; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018) pp. 176-7 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, exh. cat., (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Legion of Honor; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018) pp. 99, plate 37; 275 James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 68 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)
    Date
    1871–72
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    87.5 × 69.3 cm (34 7/16 × 27 1/4 in.); Predella: 26.5 × 69.2 cm (10 7/16 × 27 1/4 in.); Framed: 156.2 × 102.9 cm (61 1/2 × 40 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Pre-Raphaelite
    Place
    England
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Charles L. Hutchinson Collection
    Accession no.
    1925.722

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