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Study for ‘The Daughters of the Mist’

Mary Evelyn De Morgan

Artwork Details

Study for ‘The Daughters of the Mist’
1855-1919
Mary Evelyn De Morgan
black and white chalk on gray paper
18 3/8 in. x 24 5/8 in. ( 46.7 cm x 62.5 cm )
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1985/2.51

Description

A Pre-Raphaelite artist, De Morgan was known chiefly for her allegorical paintings. "The Daughters of the Mist" depicts personifications of the mist amid cloudlets in a mountain gorge at dawn. While this preliminary study is of portions of the female form undraped, the finished painting shows several maidens swathed in diaphanous, swirling drapery.

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