
Not on display
- Artist
- Frederic George Stephens 1827–1907
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 806 x 648 mm
frame: 1020 x 855 x 100 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by H.F. Stephens 1932
- Reference
- N04633
Display caption
This is a scene from The Clerk’s Tale, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Canterbury Tales. The marquis of Saluzzo has fallen in love with a poor but beautiful peasant girl, Griselda, and is proposing marriage to her. He goes on to subject her to a series of appalling trials to test her love. But Griselda is patient and eventually wins his devotion.The background of this picture was painted from life in the kitchen of the rural lodgings that Stephens shared with his friends Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, at Knole in Kent.
Gallery label, July 2007
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