JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (1849-1917). Studies of a Female fig...

JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE (1849-1917). Studies of a Female figure, recto; studies of Female heads and arms, verso ; pencil, 11 1/2 x 9 in. Provenance: Purchased by the present vendor from J.S. Maas & Co. London c. 1992. These pencil drawings are preliminary studies for one of the seated figures in Waterhouses's 1916 oil painting 'The Decameron'(Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). The subject matter of the oil painting depicts seven young women and three young men who meet in the countryside (in a bid to avoid the Black Death ravaging in fourteenth century Florence). They are depicted seated together on grass, telling tales to each other. Related preliminary pencil, pen and ink studies for the Decameron can be seen in the artist's 1912-1915 sketchbook (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

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