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Ford Madox Brown, Finding of Don Juan by Haidee, 1873 This painting developed out of Brown’s illustration for ‘The Poetical Works of Lord Byron,’ published by Moxon in 1870 and edited by William Michael Rossetti. It depicts a scene from the poem ‘Don Juan’ in which Haidee, the daughter of a Greek pirate, and her nurse Zoe discover the seemingly lifeless body of Don Juan on a beach. There are three other versions of the same composition: an oil at the Musée D’Orsay, Paris, a watercolour at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and a pastel study at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. View Larger

Ford Madox Brown, Finding of Don Juan by Haidee,

1873

This painting developed out of Brown’s illustration for ‘The Poetical Works of Lord Byron,’ published by Moxon in 1870 and edited by William Michael Rossetti. It depicts a scene from the poem ‘Don Juan’ in which Haidee, the daughter of a Greek pirate, and her nurse Zoe discover the seemingly lifeless body of Don Juan on a beach. There are three other versions of the same composition: an oil at the Musée D’Orsay, Paris, a watercolour at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and a pastel study at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

# 1870 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Ford Madox Brown art modern art PIC

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