![]() She is represented in a gloomy corridor of her palace, with the fatal fruit in her hand. Rossetti painted it at a time when his mental health was extremely precarious and his love for Jane Morris was at its most obsessive. His Proserpine, like his model Jane Morris, is an exquisitely beautiful woman, with delicate facial features, slender hands, and flawlessly pale skin set off by her thick raven hair. Although Rossetti inscribed the date 1874 on the picture, he worked for seven years on eight separate canvases before he finished with it. In his Proserpine, the artist illustrates in his typical Pre-Raphaelite style the Greek goddess Proserpina who lives in the underworld during Winter. ![]() A version in coloured chalks, dated 1880. ![]()
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