The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 21, 2024
The Coral Necklace
1871
(British, 1829–1904)
Sheet: 55.9 x 39.2 cm (22 x 15 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 57.1 x 40 cm (22 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1997.7
Catalogue raisonné: Elzea 3.21
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Frederick Sandys and his mistress, Mary Emma Jones, the sitter for this portrait, adopted the names "Mr. and Mrs. Neville" to mask the unconventional nature of their relationship.Description
Closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Frederick Sandys was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and played an active role in the bohemian artistic, literary, and theatrical circles of the day in London. This is a portrait of Mary Emma Jones, the artist’s favorite model, mistress, and mother of his nine children. An extraordinarily skilled draftsman, here he worked in tone rather than line, delicately drawing in chalk on a rough textured sheet and leaving the low points of the paper untouched to produce a stippled, hazy effect.- ?-1927J. Beecroft, Esq., Bradford, England1927(his sale, Christie's, London, February 21, 1927, no. 68)after 1927-1964Dr. J. N. Nicoll1964(his sale, Sotheby's, London, October 29, 1964, no. 225)after 1964-before 1966C. Powney, Esq.1966(Sotheby's, London, December 21, 1966, no. 305)after 1966-before 1992Anthony C. W. Crane1992(his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 12, 1992, no. 157)after 1992-before 1997Hartnollafter 1992-1997(Kate Ganz Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)1997-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- O'Looney, Betty. Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904. Exh. Cat. Brighton: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 1974. Mentioned: p. 36, no. 146; Reproduced: pl. 106Ganz, Kate. Heads and Portraits: Drawings from Piero di Cosimo to Jasper Johns. Exh. Cat. New York: Jason McCoy Inc., 1993. Mentioned: no. 21Wildman, Stephen. Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1995. Mentioned: p. 284, under no. 98Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Neoclassical Marble, Rare Korean Sculpture, Other Recent CMA Acquisitions Now on View,” April 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1997." Gazette des beaux-arts 131 (March 1998). Mentioned: p. 61, no. 243DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 194-5, 295, no. 80; Reproduced: p. 195Elzea, Betty. Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné. Woodbridge, UK: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. Mentioned: p. 241, no. 3.21; Reproduced: p. 242Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 118-21, 148, no. 40; Reproduced: pp. 119, 121 (detail)
- British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, England (May 7 - July 14, 1974); Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England (July 17-August 25 1974).Heads and Portraits: Drawings from Piero di Cosimo to Jasper Johns. Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY (May 6 - June 12, 1993).
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