Year 1903 Artist John William Waterhouse Created 1903 Support Canvas | Medium Oil on canvas Location Private collection Media Oil paint | |
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Periods Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Similar John William Waterhouse artwork, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artwork, Oil paintings | ||
Wind s wife by angelee sailer anderson after waterhouse painting boreas
Boreas is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created in 1903 by John William Waterhouse.
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Subject
The painting is titled Boreas, after the Greek god of the north wind and it shows a young girl buffeted by the wind. The 1904 Royal Academy notes described the subject of the painting as:
"In wind-blown draperies of slate-colour and blue, a girl passes through a spring landscape accented by pink blossom and daffodils".Provenance
Boreas was put up for sale in the mid-1990s after having been lost for 90 years - causing quite a sensation in the art community. The painting achieved a record price for Waterhouse at that time, achieving a price £848,500 ($1,293,962USD).
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