1893
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries is a 1893 by Edward Burne-Jones, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a person sitting with one leg bent and the other foot flat on the ground. They’re wearing loose, flowing clothes and a hood pulled up over their head. The lines are soft and sketchy, with light shading to show folds in the fabric and the shape of the body. The artist wrote "Gawain" at the top, hinting this is a character from a story. The drawing looks like a practice piece for a bigger project, with quick, rough strokes. Check out The Cleveland Museum of Art to see more of this sketch up close.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (; 28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
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