Drawings

Study for "The Love Potion"

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1903
Accession number: 70.5B
Maker: Evelyn De Morgan(Opens in new tab) (British, 1855–1919)
Dimensions: 13 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (34.9 × 24.1 cm.) mat: 22 × 16 in. (55.9 × 40.6 cm.)
Medium: pastel and chalk on heavy textured brown paper
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

Label text

This drawing is an example of De Morgan’s close consideration of the human body. Drawn with pastel on brown paper, it features a three-quarter profile of a woman’s torso, clad in a blue tunic that drapes across the chest. The artist omits any details of the head, neck, or back of the figure, focusing instead on the delicately posed forearm and wrist. De Morgan likely created this drawing in preparation for a painting titled The Love Potion, produced in 1903, in which a woman gracefully pours a potion into a silver goblet (2022).

Study for "The Love Potion"

You might also be interested in

Study for "An Angel Piping to the Souls in Hell"

Study for "Life and Thought Emerging from the Tomb"

B.B.B.

Small Bough

Small Bough

Small Bough