Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith c.1866 Chalk on paper, 62 x 57 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Cornforth, Fanny (1835-1909) | Goethe,…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Watercolor and gouache, 51.3 x 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fascinated by women’s physical allure, Rossetti here imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair…