Study for 'Greek Girl Dancing': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Greek Girl Dancing': Composition
Date: c.1866
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 15.2 x 19.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0494
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Description

Tracing for the composition of the painting 'Greek Girl Dancing' (c.1867, untraced). The composition is similar to that of the finished painting, although the position of the feet of the dancing figure are different, and the lions head architectural decoration, to the right of the composition, was not included in the finished work. 

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.162 catalogue number 15a
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.157 (listed under catalogue number 127)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Pub 

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 15a (exhibited in the dining room)