'Study for 'Orpheus and Eurydice': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: 'Study for 'Orpheus and Eurydice': Composition
Date: c.1863
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 29.7 x 13.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0479
Inscriptions: Inscribed centre right "Orpheus" in pencil. Inscribed lower right corner "37" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H63" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "L/L/" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower right "ú2 2" in pencil.

Description

Upper half of sheet: study for the composition of the painting 'Orpheus and Eurydice' (c.1864, Leighton House Museum). The composition is similar to the finished painting, although very roughly indicated. 

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.155 (listed under catalogue number 102)