Love's Messenger  1885

by Marie Spartali Stillman

Watercolour Basic [br] The painting depicts a dove which has carried a love letter to a woman wearing a red rose, who stands in front of an open window and who has put down her embroidery of a blind-folded Cupid. It also reflects the influence of both early Pre-Raphaelite painting and Italian Renaissance painting. The symbols portrayed in the painting, including the dove...
Size: 
32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
Medium: 
Watercolor, tempera, and gold paint on paper mounted on wood
Credit: 
Courtesy of Delaware Art Museum