Study for 'David': David, Feet of David

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'David': David, Feet of David
Date: c.1863-68
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 14.6 x 19.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0481
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse, centre "H52" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Full-length nude study for the figure of David in the painting 'David' (c.1865, private collection). The figure does not have a beard. Lower right of sheet: study for the feet of David. It is difficult to see the feet 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

• Newall, Christopher, 'Inaugural Exhibition: A Celebration of British and European Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries', Peter Nahum amd Chris Beetles, 1985, p.34, illustrated on p.35
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.156 (listed under catalogue number 116) 

Exhibition history

• 21 October 1987 to 29 November 1987, 'Lord Leighton's King David', The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio