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ISBN: 9780300111279\r\n\r\nThe entry is as follows:\r\n\r\nMasked Pierette in a Cape and a Ruff\r\nSpring 1893\r\nVictoria and Albert Museum, London (E.326-1972)\r\nPen and Indian ink with traces of pencil on white wove paper; 4 5/16 x 2 15/16 inches (110 x 75 mm).\r\n\r\nIPROVENANCE: J. M Dent; …; R. A. Harari, by descent to Michael Harari; bt. Victoria and Albert Museum in 1972 with the aid of a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund.  \r\n\r\nLITERATURE: Vallance 1897 (p.206), 1909 (no. 65.IIi); Gallatin 1945 (nos. 645-771); Reade 1967 (pp. 330, n.228); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.19).\r\n\r\nREPRODUCED: ‘Bon-Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold’, edited by Walter Jerrold and published by J. M. Dent, December 1893 (p. 138); Reade 1967 (plate 227).\r\n\r\nThis grotesque Pierette wearing a half-mask or domino is reminiscent of Beardsley’s design for the headpiece of the ‘Stageland’ column in ‘To-day’, to which he contributed during three months of 1894, and it looks forward to the masked Pierrot-hair-dresser in ‘The Toilette of Salome’, first version (nos. 933 and 871 below). Here, however, the figure is a full-length nude thrust into view by its huge ruff and cape that is open in invitation or to display hanging breasts, broad hips and clearly outlined pudendum. The mask leads the eye to the breast-shapes in the hair and the coquettishly tilted head and pursed mouth. Research yielded no comment about this drawing. 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