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1861-1922
Victorian Neoclassical/Olympian Classical Revivalistpainter
At the Gate of the Temple
1898
161.6 x 71.1 cms | 63 1/2 x 27 3/4 ins
Oil on canvas
Provenance:
Messes. Thomas McLean, London, 15 Jul 1898; Christie's New York 12 Oct 1993 (208) for $178,300; bt. Richard Green Fine Paintings, London; present location unknown.
Literature:
McClean letter to Godward (15 Jul 1898) Milo-Turner coll.; Christie's New York (ac) col. repro.
Certainly his most successful painting of 1898 was At the Gate of the Temple. This painting bears certain compositional similarities with The Priestess of 1894. The bacchante was undoubtedly Lily Pettigrew, a noted model who often posed for Godward. She is posed as a delicated guard of the temple of Dionysius. Standing straight and upright before the bolted door, she holds a thyrsus stick with a pine-cone topknot.
Source:
John William Godward: the Eclipse of Classicism, by Vern Grosvenor Swanson, Phd.
Messes. Thomas McLean, London, 15 Jul 1898; Christie's New York 12 Oct 1993 (208) for $178,300; bt. Richard Green Fine Paintings, London; present location unknown.
Literature:
McClean letter to Godward (15 Jul 1898) Milo-Turner coll.; Christie's New York (ac) col. repro.
Certainly his most successful painting of 1898 was At the Gate of the Temple. This painting bears certain compositional similarities with The Priestess of 1894. The bacchante was undoubtedly Lily Pettigrew, a noted model who often posed for Godward. She is posed as a delicated guard of the temple of Dionysius. Standing straight and upright before the bolted door, she holds a thyrsus stick with a pine-cone topknot.
Source:
John William Godward: the Eclipse of Classicism, by Vern Grosvenor Swanson, Phd.
