Study for 'Jezebel and Ahab': Head of Jezebel

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Jezebel and Ahab': Head of Jezebel
Date: c.1862
Media: Black chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 32.0 x 24.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0475
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "(Ahab &) Jezebel" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "N74" encircled, in pencil.

Description

 

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

• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.179 catalogue number 166
• Gere, Charlotte, et al., 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2006, p.55 catalogue number 3.2 (illustrated)
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard,  

Exhibition history

• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 166 (exhibited in window of the large studio)
• 08 November 2006 to 25 February 2007, 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 3.2