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Andromeda (painting)

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Andromeda is an 1869 oil on canvas painting of Andromeda by Edward Poynter, using the accounts of her rescue in the Metamorphoses and Apollodorus of Athens. The blue cloth tied to her left leg recalls a motif in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne[1] The model for the body was Antonia Calva (who had also worked with Edward Burne-Jones and Frederic Leighton)[2][3] and for the face Annie Keene (also photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron).[4]

A few years later, in 1871, the artist produced another work showing Andromeda, her rescuer Perseus and the monster Cetus to which she was being sacrificed (destroyed in the Second World War, though an oil sketch for it survives).[1][5] The 1869 work is now in the private collection of Juan Antonio Pérez Simón in Mexico.[6][1]

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  1. ^ a b c "Sir Edward John Poynter, Bt., P.R.A., R.W.S." Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  2. ^ Wildman, Stephen; Burne-Jones, Edward Coley; Christian, John (1998). Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-dreamer. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-858-4. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  3. ^ "drawing | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  4. ^ "Putting a Name to the Face in the De Morgans' Artworks - The De Morgan Foundation". 2022-11-05. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  5. ^ "Sir Edward John Poynter - Three Oil Studies for Wortley Halll". Martin Beisly Fine Art. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  6. ^ "La pintura victoriana de la colección Pérez Simón se exhibe en Roma". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2023-11-04.