'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: 'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Composition
Date: c.1861
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 33.6 x 28.1 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0466
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse, upper centre "H93" encircled, in pencil, written sideways.

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, 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 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.154 (listed under catalogue number 80) 

Exhibition history

• 19 September 2005 to 09 December 2005, 'The Leighton Drawings Project: A Preview', Leighton House Museum, London