Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Vespertina Quies
Bequeathed by Miss Maud Beddington 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
balustrade
clothing and personal items
contemplation
courtyard
dress
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
evening
features
hill
individuals: female
Keene, Elizabeth
landscape
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
ring
standing
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
woman
<p>This picture evokes a mood of contemplation and stillness. Its Latin title means ‘Evening Quiet’. Burne-Jones is believed to have employed a model named Elizabeth Keene, who he invited to watch him work on the painting. She is seen in a three-quarter view leaning on a balustrade in a pose reminiscent of Italian Renaissance portraits. These had greatly impressed Burne-Jones on his second visit to Italy with John Ruskin, in 1862.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
6 October 2001 – 6 January 2002
2002-01-06
6 October 2001 – 6 January 2002
2002-01-06
2001-10-06
Castle Museum (Norwich, UK)
2001-10-06
Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites
Loan-out
8 August 2005 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
8 August 2005 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
2005-08-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-08-08
Victorian Spectacle
Collection based display
12 September 2012 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
10 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2012-09-12
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Exhibition
17 February 2013 – 31 August 2014
2014-08-31
10 June 2013 – 13 October 2013
2013-10-13
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2013-02-17
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Loan-out
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
2019-02-24
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
2019-02-24
2018-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-10-24
Edward Burne-Jones
Exhibition
14 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
14 September 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-09-14
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.waldermarsudde.com
21 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-21
KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes (Bergen, Norway)
2019-09-14
Edward Burne-Jones: The Pre-Raphaelites and the North
Loan-out
Vespertina Quies
support: 1079 × 622 mm
frame: 1600 × 1300 × 170 mm
Bequeathed by Miss Maud Beddington 1940
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<p>This picture evokes a mood of contemplation and stillness. Its Latin title means ‘Evening Quiet’. Burne-Jones is believed to have employed a model named Elizabeth Keene, who he invited to watch him work on the painting. She is seen in a three-quarter view leaning on a balustrade in a pose reminiscent of Italian Renaissance portraits. These had greatly impressed Burne-Jones on his second visit to Italy with John Ruskin, in 1862.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults architecture balustrade clothing and personal items contemplation courtyard dress emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas evening features hill individuals: female Keene, Elizabeth landscape named individuals objects people portraits ring standing times of the day townscapes / man-made features woman