Figure with head scarf

1890–1905

Not on view

This androgynous figure may represent King David, the Old Testament figure whose love for Jonathan the artist saw as a legitimizing model for love between men. The style and iconography here respond to the artist's own 1871 prose poem, "A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep," where a narrator and his soul journey through a landscape in a dream state, experiencing visions that relate to forms and conditions of love. In a series of related late works, Solomon represented one or two heads in profile using a style that moves away from the Pre-Raphaelitism of Dante Gabriel Rossetti towards Symbolism.

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Title: Figure with head scarf
Artist: Simeon Solomon (British, London 1840–1905 London)
Date: 1890–1905
Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (28.8 × 24 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019
Object Number: 2021.15.9
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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