Boreas (painting)

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

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

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