Literature
Vern Swanson, JW Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, revised edition, Woodbridge, 2018, cat. no. 1903-1, p. 286, illustrated.

The present lot is a study for a larger work which was bought by A&F Pears Ltd., and published as a chromolithographic print in the 1906 Pears Annual. The finished composition was described as 'a Greek classical subject. A fair-haired maiden, daintily robed in diaphanous warm- hued draperies, and holding in her left hand a capacious fan of peacocks' feathers, reclines on a deep marble seat, over which tiger skin has been carelessly thrown. The face is full of radiance, the expression being one of sweet content and happy thoughts. A cluster of waving poppies nestles close to the seat, and in the middle distance beyond. Beauty, grace, and splendour, nature, and art, mingle in an atmosphere of poetry, the whole constituting an exquisite example of classical treatment.' (Swanson, p. 286)

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