Study of a coiffure
1874
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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Edward Coley, Sir Burne-Jones
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir (1833–1898) was an artist.
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Study of a coiffure is a 1874 by Edward Coley, Sir Burne-Jones, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a pencil drawing of a woman’s hair. It looks like a tight, neat bun. The lines are sharp and precise. No color. Just black and white. Burne-Jones used a hard pencil to copy a style he saw in old Italian drawings. He wanted thin, clean lines like artists made in Florence centuries before. This wasn’t for one painting only. Try looking up Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir.
A study of a coiffure by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones from 1874 reflects the artist's engagement with old master drawings during his early 1870s trips to Italy, where he adopted a precise, needle-sharp pencil technique inspired by Florentine examples of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Though not a direct preparatory work for *The Beguiling of Merlin* (1872–77), the drawing was likely created in relation to that painting. The work was later acquired by Captain H. Reitlinger and donated to a collection in 1919.
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Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir (1833–1898) was an artist.
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