Study for 'The Syracusan Bride': Male and Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Syracusan Bride': Male and Female Figures
Date: c.1865
Media: Black chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 32.5 x 48.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0489
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "J.23" encircled, in pencil, written upside down. Inscribed on reverse, lower left "t/t/- f/f/-" in pencil, first part crossed out in pencil.

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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.156 (listed under catalogue number 120)