Note 6 to Chapter 9 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Leighton's other pictures in 1862 were The Star of Bethlehem, Odalisque, Sisters, Duett, and Sea Echoes. No. 229 in the same exhibition was Alexander II signing the death-warrant of Savonarola by P. Levin. On 4 April 1864 the Leweses visited Leighton's studio for a private view of the pictures he was sending to the academy that year; among them were Dante at Verona and Orpheus and Eurydice (Letters, IV, 143).
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