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The Love Song (Le Chant d'Amour)
The Love Song (Le Chant d'Amour)

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.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer
Accession number06.2432
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsOn back in artist's writing: painted in Water colour/ Edward Burne Jones/ 1864ProvenanceSold 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.