| Object Number: | D_EDM_0221 | |
| Date: | 1896 | |
| Category: | Drawings and Paper | |
| Material: | Paper |
Compositional Study for Evelyn De Morgans painting Boreas and Oreithyia. Evelyn De Morgan (née Pickering), 1896. Charcoal, conté crayon, pastel and gold paint on brown wove paper. This preliminary compositional study conforms to traditional representations of the Greek God of the North Wind, where Boreas is depicted as an aggressive figure with puffed up cheeks, ready to abduct the passive Orethyia. However in Evelyns final painting Boreas is portrayed as a much more tender and sensitive figure. The gap between concept and final treatment suggests the influence that the models commanding appearance had over the project as a whole.