Male Figure Study for "Love's Wayfaring" or "The Car of Love"

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA (1833-1898)

c. 1888

Red and black chalk on reddish-brown paper

14 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 37 x 21 centimetres.

"A study for the figure on the extreme right of the third back row in the picture" (Waters, p. 61).

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