Accession Number1985/2.51
TitleStudy for 'The Daughters of the Mist'
Artist(s)Mary Evelyn De MorganObject Creation Date1855-1919Medium & Supportblack and white chalk on gray paperDimensions 18 3/8 in. x 24 5/8 in. ( 46.7 cm x 62.5 cm )
Credit LineMuseum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of ArtLabel copyA Pre-Raphaelite artist, De Morgan was known chiefly for her allegorical paintings. "The Daughters of the Mist" depicts personifications of the mist amid cloudlets in a mountain gorge at dawn. While this preliminary study is of portions of the female form undraped, the finished painting shows several maidens swathed in diaphanous, swirling drapery.
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modern and contemporary art
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