Can Anyone Identify This Painting?

[pastafreak]

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I've googled dozens of listings of his work and not found it. I'd like to find a print by a reliable source.

[elliemay1]

You forgot the link

[wolf63]

You numpty pasta

[pastafreak]

Dohhhhh! Dontcha want to guess?

[pastafreak]

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[rowanwitch]

Can you give a description o r some more info. Birmingham Art Gallery would be a good place to contact. They have a permanent exhibition of pre Raphaelite artists.

[Gromit]

The Beloved.

[Toorak]

According to my art app it is called Night and Sleep by Evelyn De Morgan

[Toorak]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_Sleep

[rowanwitch]

Well that explains why it didn't turn up on a search...

[Buenchico]

Full info from the De Morgan Foundation:
https://www.demorgan.org.uk/collection/night-and-sleep/

Framed prints here:
https://www.printsandfineart.co.uk/product/91388/GM4479/evelyn-de-morgan-night-and-sleep?ccc=GBP%2CGBP
(if you're feeling wealthy)

Unframed prints (with plenty of options regarding paper and size) here:
https://spiffingprints.com/products/evelyn-de-morgan-night-and-sleep-1878?variant=14405663391796

[Atheist]

I'm not very keen on it. Maybe an early work?

[jno]

it was in the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery a couple of years ago. Lovely work.

[Vagus]

No, I’m not fussed either. The colours are too, err, too something or other. And I’m not keen on the subject matter either.

[Atheist]

What on earth is there to like about it? To me it's romantic kitsch; I do love the little pink flowers falling down from their bodies, though.

[jno]

they're scattering poppies for sleep

[Atheist]

Poppy flowers don't make you sleep. But only a few artists would know that.

[Mamyalynne]

//Sleep, who gently scatters poppies onto the earth beneath, from the armful of flowers that he has taken from his girdle. (The Victorians used laudanum as a sleeping draught, which was made from tincture of the opium poppy.)//

[DTCwordfan]

Really, there's some awful criticism here. I can see why pasta thought it was a Rosetti - the colours are vibrant, the hint that it could be a Botticelli or some other Italian Renaissance.... don't damn the painting, you may not like it, but it's a quality painting, falling poppies and all.

[Atheist]

The 'stuff' is obtained by scoring the seed-pods and coollecting the latex exudation for processing. The flowers don't have it. But, it's all symbolic, like wearing drugs on your lapel.

[DTCwordfan]

I need some morphine.......thanks Atheist!