Proserpine

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Proserpine' (1874) depicts the Greco-Roman goddess Persephone, trapped in the underworld after tasting a pomegranate seed, clutching the half-eaten fruit as she gazes past the viewer. The model was Jane Morris, Rossetti's great muse. A canonical image of Pre-Raphaelite symbolism, Tate Britain holds one of the most resolved of Rossetti's several 'Proserpine' versions.

Exhibition Venue

Tate Britain

London, United Kingdom