Cleveland Museum of Art
Steps in a Garden
William Henry MillaisLinkedCulture matchlcp-593995e0b82f
- Date
- 1860
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache with scratch-away technique to create highlights on sturdy-weight wove paper mounted to same by artist with color tests in margins of mount
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 170718
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
William Henry Millais was closely associated with the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He sketched extensively from nature in the early 1850s. Here, Millais painted a sequestered landscape of rough-hewn steps ascending a shady slope. A smattering of light pierces a dense canopy of trees, allowing little to flourish except for the foxgloves that adorn the foreground. Ivy growing on the hillside, a decaying stump, and moss-covered steps suggest the passage of time. William Henry Millais's brother John Everett was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and encouraged the older artist to pursue landscape as a subject.
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- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Provenance
- ?-?: D. Parkinson | 1977: (sale, Sotheby's, London, December 6, 1977, no. 36) | after 1977-?: (Maas Gallery, London) | ?-2013: Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 2013-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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