Study for "The Love Potion"

Maker Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855-1919)

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Dateca. 1903

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

Status

Not on view

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).

Object number70.5B

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