Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882)Burd Alanesigned with monogram (lower left)oil on canvas30x 33cm(11 13/16x 13in).For further information on this lot please visit theArtist or Maker: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882)Provenance: ProvenanceThomas Plint; his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, English Pictures and Drawings, formed by that distinguished Patron of Art, Thomas E. Plint, Esq., 7-8 March 1862, lot 267 (68 5s. to 'Crofts').Mr Crofts, of Manchester (acquired from the above sale).Mr James Leathart (acquired from the above sale); his sale, Christie's, London, 19 June 1897, lot 46 (bought in).Mrs Edward Rae; Colonel Leathart Rae; Mrs Leathart Rae.Thence by descent to the present owner.ExhibitedLondon, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1883, no. 25, lent by James Leathart.London, Goupil Gallery, A Pre-Raphaelite Collection, June-July 1896, no. 8.Manchester, 1911, no. 163, lent by Mrs Edward Rae.London, Tate Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by Pre-Raphaelite Painters from Collections in Lancashire, 1913, no. 30.Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites – Their Friends and Followers, 1948, no. 178, lent by Colonel Leathart Rae.Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, Paintings from the Leathart Collection, 1968, no. 61, lent by Mrs Leathart Rae.Literature W. Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – A Record and a Study, London, 1882, p. 174, catalogue no. 84. W. M. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – His Family-Letters, London, 1895, two volumes, I, p. 213. W. M. Rossetti, 'A Pre-Raphaelite Collection', Art Journal, 1896, pp. 129-34. H. C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life, second edition, London, 1901, p. 155, catalogue no. 139. E. Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1908 (plate xix). Burlington Magazine, 1970, figure 38 (showing Frederick Hollyer's photograph of the painting). V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Paintings and Drawings – A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford, 1971, two volumes (I no. 144, p. 85).This painting has remained in the collections of successive generations descending from James Leathart, who himself acquired it in 1862 or shortly afterwards. It has not been exhibited in public since 1968, when it was shown in the Laing Art Gallery's exhibition of works from the Leathart collection. Virginia Surtees included it in her 1971 Rossetti catalogue, although with reservations about its authenticity. It has now reappeared and may be recognised as an important and valuable addition to the canon of known works by Rossetti.Burd Alane shows the head and shoulders and hands of a young woman, her head slightly turned to the left, and who gazes into an unknown space. She rests her hands on a brick parapet and on either side are seen sprays of honeysuckle. This is a similar format to the artist's previous thematic figurative subject, Bocca Baciata – 'The