© Reproduced with permission of the Barrow family
Beauty Seeing the Image of her Home in the Fountain
Artist: Joseph Southall (1861 - 1944)
Location: Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Date: 1897 - 1898
Materials: tempera on wood panel
Dimensions: 73 x 68.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £189,000)
Vendor: Fine Art Society
Review number: 5374 (2004)
Provenance:
Private collector, 1898; then by descent; Fine Art Society in the 1980s; Alan Fortunoff, New York; Fine Art Society, 2004.
Description:
This work is one of a series illustrating episodes from the folk tale 'Beauty and the Beast' and has strong colouring and a good decorative effect. Southall was heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance art which led him to rediscover tempera. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901 together with Walter Crane and Holman Hunt.
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