Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
watercolour
1867
Surtees notes that Jane Burden Morris sat for the figure of Yseult ( A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 114).
DGR wrote out the following text, which might have served the picture for a descriptive epigraph: “How Sir Tristram fetched La Belle Isoude out of Ireland to be King Mark's wife of Cornwall; and how in the ship, by misadventure, they two drank a love-drink, & so each loved other to their life's end.”
Both Morris and DGR associated Jane with Guenevere from very early in their meeting with her.
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