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

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Drawing details

Title: 'Study for 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Drapery for Servant
Date: c.1861
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 42.0 x 24.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0473
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "M Angelo & Servant" in pencil. Inscribed upper right corner "h11" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H90" encircled, in pencil, written upside down. Inscribed on reverse, centre "10/-" in pencil, written sideways. Inscrib

Description

Drapery study for the right side of the figure of the servant in the painting 'Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). The right sleeve, the drapery falling from the right shoulder and the red drapery behind the figure are indicated. The figure appears to sit more upright than in the finished painting. 

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