'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: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 18.0 x 13.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0468
Inscriptions: None

Description

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

Provenance

Presented to Leighton House Museum by the Countess of Darnley in c.1897 

Bibliography

• Anon., 'Catalogue of Drawings by the late Lord Leighton Preserved for the Nation', Leighton House Committee, 1897, catalogue number 1 "Michael Angelo and his Servant"
• Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume ll, illustrated opposite p.93
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.154 (listed under catalogue number 80)