1860
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Copy after La Primavera, Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi (Florence) is a 1860 watercolor by Sandro Botticelli, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows Botticelli’s famous Primavera crowd of figures in a grove. Light falls through trees on dancing women, a man in blue, and Flora scattering flowers. It’s not the original. An Italian dealer named Emilio Costantini copied it in the 1860s for a group that wanted to share Renaissance art. They printed these copies to teach people. If you like this style, look up Botticelli, Sandro.
This watercolour by Emilio Costantini reproduces Botticelli’s *Primavera* (c. 1478), depicting nine figures in a garden setting: three dancing Graces on the left, Venus in a white and red dress at the center, Zephyrus pursuing Flora on the right, and Mercury in a red robe on the far left. Created in 1860 for the Arundel Society, the work was later published as chromolithographs in 1888. The composition reflects themes of love, interpreted either as poetic or Neo-Platonic ideals. Acquired in 1995 from the National Gallery of London, the watercolour remains in their collection.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Sandro Botticelli was a Florentine painter who loved the drama of stories—myths, saints, and ancient tales.
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