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Ariadne (1863-64) by Edward Coley Burne-Jones (British, 1833 - 1898).

Watercolour and gouache over graphite on paper.

National Gallery of Art.

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Everyone talks about Burne-Jones the painter. The stained glass, the tapestries, the lush oils dripping with medieval fantasy. Nobody talks about his graphite. "Venus" is where you see his hand thinking. No color to seduce you, no gold leaf, no narrative crutch. Just a soft graphite pencil on cream paper and a figure built almost entirely from pressure control. The modeling is so faint it barely exists - he's not drawing shadows, he's suggesting the memory of them. The heaviest tonal work sits under the breasts and along the inner thighs, and even there we're talking about maybe three values total. The belly, the sternum, the shins - bare paper doing the work of skin. Then there's the dissolution toward the feet. The ankles dissolve into gesture. The toes are ghosts. The face, though, is finished enough to read: downcast eyes, closed mouth, that Burne-Jones melancholy that makes every figure look like she's remembering something she hasn't lived yet. A whole Venus conjured from almost nothing - friction between graphite and paper, and knowing exactly when to stop. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

La Roue de la Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune) Edward Burne-Jones (British; 1833–1898) 1875–83 Oil on canvas Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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Edward Burne-Jones, The Death of Turnus, graphite on paper, 1873

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At auction : An Art Nouveau enamel double winged pendant by Child & Child, circa 1900, the crossed wings decorated in shades of turquoise blue guilloché enamel, the reverse decorated with pale green translucent enamel, suspending a cabochon moonstone drop below (possibly later added), reverse with impressed sunflower mark, length 39mm.

Brothers Walter and Harold Child founded their jewellery business in Seville Street, Knightsbridge in 1880. In 1888 they registered their mark at the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as silver-plate workers. It was not until 1891 that they began manufacturing jewellery, but it is for these pieces that they are best known today. They cultivated a star-studded clientele, including Pre-Raphaelite artists William Holman Hunt and Sir Edward Burne-Jones and the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens – they often commissioned pieces after their own personal designs. The firm also enjoyed royal patronage from Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V. At the start of the century they were granted the Royal Warrant by Queen Alexandra.

The brothers’ partnership ended in 1899, but Harold Child continued to work alone until his death in 1915, when the firm finally closed.

Child & Child are considered one of the finest producers of Arts and Crafts jewellery of this period. The firm’s pieces are characterised by their use of enamel – usually bright blue or green – in elaborate silverwork, and motifs featuring butterflies, leaves, feathers and wings. Many of their pieces feature the brothers’ unofficial mark depicting a sunflower between two ‘Cs.’