• Source: Boreas (painting)

Boreas is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created in 1903 by John William Waterhouse.




Subject


The painting is titled Boreas, after the Greek god of the north wind, and it shows a young girl buffeted by the wind. The 1904 Royal Academy notes described the subject of the painting as:

In wind-blown draperies of slate-colour and blue, a girl passes through a spring landscape accented by pink blossom and daffodils.




Provenance


Boreas was put up for sale in the mid-1990s after having been lost for 90 years – causing quite a sensation in the art community. The painting achieved a record price for Waterhouse at that time, £848,500 ($1,294,000 USD).




See also


List of paintings by John William Waterhouse




References

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• Helios
• Boreas (painting)
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• John William Waterhouse
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