Skip to main content

Study of a Right Arm Against a Blue Tunic

Maker (British, 1855-1919)
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Daten.d.
Mediumpastel and chalk on heavy textured brown paper
Dimensions13 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (34.9 × 24.1 cm.) mat: 22 × 16 in. (55.9 × 40.6 cm.)
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextThis drawing is an example of De Morgan’s close consideration of the human body. Drawn with pastel on brown paper, it features a three-quarter profile of a woman’s torso, clad in a blue tunic that drapes across the chest. The artist omits any details of the head, neck, or back of the figure, focusing instead on the delicately posed forearm and wrist. De Morgan likely created this drawing in preparation for a painting titled The Love Potion, produced in 1903, in which a woman gracefully pours a potion into a silver goblet (2022).
Status
Not on view
Object number70.5B
Terms
    Head of a Girl Playing a Reed Pipe
    Evelyn de Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 70.5A
    Clasped Hands of a Knight and a Girl
    Evelyn de Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 70.5C
    B.B.B.
    William De Morgan
    ca. 1880
    Object number: 2000.5.2703
    Pomegranate
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2710
    Pomegranate
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2711
    Pomegranate
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2712
    Small Bough
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2706
    Small Bough
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2707
    Small Bough
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2708
    Pomegranate
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2709
    Small Bough
    William De Morgan
    n.d.
    Object number: 2000.5.2705