The Love Song (Le Chant d'Amour)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
(English, 1833–1898)
1865
Medium/TechniqueTransparent and opaque watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 54.9 x 77.7 cm (21 5/8 x 30 9/16 in.)
Framed: 86.4 x 109.5 cm (34 x 43 1/8 in.)
Framed: 86.4 x 109.5 cm (34 x 43 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer
Accession number06.2432
On View
Not on viewClassificationsWatercolors
Collections
ProvenanceSold by the artist to William Graham (b. 1817 - d. 1885), Glasgow; April 3, 1886, posthumous Graham sale, Christie's, London, lot 153, to Edward Clifford (b. 1844 - d. 1907), London. By 1887, Martin Brimmer (b. 1829 - d. 1896), Boston [see note]; 1906, bequest of Martin Brimmer to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)
NOTE: Lent to the MFA and included in the Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited on the Second Floor, 3d ed., Winter 1887-1888 (Boston, 1888), p. 32, cat. no. 625.
NOTE: Lent to the MFA and included in the Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited on the Second Floor, 3d ed., Winter 1887-1888 (Boston, 1888), p. 32, cat. no. 625.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1894
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1903