Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A. (1833-1898) and Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919)

Commissioned from the artist by Euphrosyne Cassavetti (1822-1896) and thence by descent to her daughter Maria Zambaco (1843-1914)
Charles Handley Read (1916-1971), London
Sale: Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 29 June 1976, lot 270
Roy Miles, London
Julian Hartnoll, London, 1985
Rudolf Lang, until 1993
Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1994

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Sacred and Profane in Symbolist Art, 1-26 September 1969, not numbered
London, Royal Academy, Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art, The Handley-Read Collection, 4 March – 30 April 1974, no. D148
London, The Fine Art Society, 11 – 28 June 1972, no. 42
London, The Fine Art Society, The Paintings, Water-Colours, and Drawings from the Handley-Read Collection, March 1974, no. 52
London, Peter Nahum, Peter Nahum Ltd in Tokyo, 1990, not numbered
London, Peter Nahum, Burne-Jones – A Quest for Love: Works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bt. And Related Works by Contemporary Artists, September – November 1993, no. 5

Martin Bell, Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, London, 1898, p. 43
Martin Harrison and Bill Waters, Burne-Jones, London, 1973, p. 96
John Christian, ‘Burne-Jones Studies’, in The Burlington Magazine, February 1973, vol. 115, p. 106, illustrated fig. 46
Stephan Wolohajian (ed.), A Private Passion: 19^th Century Paintings and Drawings from the Greville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, New Haven, 2003, pp. 364-365
Fiona McCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite, London, 2011, p. 221
Liana De Girolami Cheney, Edward Burne-Jones’ Mythical Paintings: The Pygmalion of Pre-Raphaelite Painters, Bern, 2014, p. 149, illustrated fig. 10
David B. Eliott, A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage – The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman & William James Stillman, Woodbridge, 2006, pp. 69-70