Edmund Dulac | Original illustration for Cinderella ("Whereupon she instantly desired..."), 1910, signed by the artist

Dulac, Edmund

"Whereupon she instantly desired her partner to lead her to the King and Queen", 1910

305 x 255mm. (frame 501 x 432mm.), ink and watercolour, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST ON LOWER RIGHT ("10"), mounted, framed and glazed

Original watercolour illustration for 'Cinderella' from The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. Dulac used as his model for Cinderella, Lea Rixens, the wife of Dulac's friend from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Emile Rixens. Dulac later used Lea as the model for Marianne de Londres on his Victory stamp for France in 1944.

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

Leicester Galleries, November-December 1910, no.48 | Sheffield City Art Galleries, November 1982-May 1983, item no. 15: label to verso | Sotheby's Childhood: A Loan Exhibition of Works of Art, Sotheby's 2-27th January 1988, no.749

LITERATURE:

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1910, p.64; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Water-colour drawings illustrating "The Sleeping Beauty" and other fairy tales Edmund Dulac and water-colour sketches of Majorica and Minorca by R. Anning Bell, R.W.S., Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, November-December, 1910; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 46, 61, 62; Edmund Dulac: illustrator and designer, 1882-1953 : a centenary exhibition, Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1982