Edward Coley Burne-Jones - The Love Song



Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Love Song
114.3 x 155.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: EBJ
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 71
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 138


Provenance

William Graham, London, by 1882—died 1885
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 3 April 1886, nr. 163, to Agnew
with Agnew, London, 1886, sold to Ruston
Joseph Ruston, Monk's Manor, Lincoln, 1886—died 1897
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 21 May 1898, nr. 25, to Agnew
with Agnew, London, 1898, sold to Ismay
Thomas Henry Ismay, Dawpool, Thurstaston, Wirral, Chester, 1898—died 1899
James Hainsworth Ismay, The Cottage, Bambridge, Isle of Wight, 1899-died 1930
Mrs. James Hainsworth Ismay, 1930-45, sold to Williams
with Williams & Son, London, 1945-47, sold to MMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1947
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 47.26

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