Boreas (painting)

Boreas
Artist	John William Waterhouse
Year	1903
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Private collection

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.^[1]

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).^[1]

See also

• List of paintings by John William Waterhouse

References

1. "Boreas". jwwaterhouse.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007.