SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S | STUDY OF A MALE NUDE AND TWO STUDIES OF ARMS FOR "THE GARDEN OF PAN"

By descent to the artist’s daughter Margaret McKail (nee Burne-Jones);

with Louis Meier, London,

where acquired by Ralph Holland, Newcastle, circa 1954,

his sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2013, lot 367;

with Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London

The Garden of Pan (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne) was begun in 1876 but not completed until 1887. It depicts the sylvan god Pan playing his pipes in a wild rolling landscape similar to those found in the paintings of Bellini and Piero di Cosimo. The present drawing is for the male figure of one of the naked lovers who are listening to Pan's music on the banks of a stream.