Boreas (Waterhouse painting)

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Boreas
John William Waterhouse, 1903
Oil on canvas

Private collection

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

[edit] 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".^[1]

[edit] 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, achieving a price £848,500 ($1,293,962).^[1]