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The Coral Necklace

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.)
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.
  • ?-1927
    J. Beecroft, Esq., Bradford, England
    1927
    (his sale, Christie's, London, February 21, 1927, no. 68)
    after 1927-1964
    Dr. J. N. Nicoll
    1964
    (his sale, Sotheby's, London, October 29, 1964, no. 225)
    after 1964-before 1966
    C. Powney, Esq.
    1966
    (Sotheby's, London, December 21, 1966, no. 305)
    after 1966-before 1992
    Anthony C. W. Crane
    1992
    (his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 12, 1992, no. 157)
    after 1992-before 1997
    Hartnoll
    after 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. 106
    Ganz, Kate. Heads and Portraits: Drawings from Piero di Cosimo to Jasper Johns. Exh. Cat. New York: Jason McCoy Inc., 1993. Mentioned: no. 21
    Wildman, 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. 98
    Cleveland 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. 243
    DeGrazia, 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. 195
    Elzea, Betty. Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné. Woodbridge, UK: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. Mentioned: p. 241, no. 3.21; Reproduced: p. 242
    Lemonedes, 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).
  • {{cite web|title=The Coral Necklace|url=false|author=Frederick Sandys|year=1871|access-date=21 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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