Study for 'Idyll': Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Idyll': Female Figures
Date: c.1880
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 21.2 x 32.1 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1113
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "E.17" encircled, in pencil, written sideways.

Description

Full-length nude study for the group of two female figures to the right of the painting 'Idyll' (c.1880-81, private collection). 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (n+e Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (n+e Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; collection of Leighton House Museum