Bocca Baciata is an oil on panel painting completed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1859. The work marks an important point in Rossetti’s career, as it was his first single-figure oil portrait of a woman, inaugurating a type that would become central to his later oeuvre. Painted in London, it is associated with the early phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, of which Rossetti was a founding member. The painting features a young woman with loose, flowing auburn hair, seated before a background densely filled with yellow flowers.

She wears a dark garment adorned with gold embroidery and jewelry, and holds a small yellow flower in her hand. A white rose is tucked behind her ear, and a pomegranate rests on the table in front of her. The composition is tightly framed, focusing attention on the subject’s face and hands, while the warm, luminous palette and detailed rendering of textures are characteristic of Rossetti’s technique during this period. Bocca Baciata was painted with Fanny Cornforth as the model, who became one of Rossetti’s most frequent sitters.

The work was exhibited in 1860 and is often cited as the beginning of Rossetti’s mature style, which emphasized sensuous beauty and symbolic detail. The painting has been widely discussed in art historical literature and remains a significant example of early Pre-Raphaelite portraiture.