Study for 'Daedalus and Icarus': Icarus

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Daedalus and Icarus': Icarus
Date: c.1868
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 32.0 x 22.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0498
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "Icarus" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "E135" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "300" encircled, in pencil, crossed out in pencil.

Description

Study for the figure of Icarus in the painting 'Daedalus and Icarus' (c.1869, private collection). The model is slimmer than the figure in the finished painting. Some drapery behind the figure, and over the left hand, is indicated, although the drapery which falls across the body is not. 

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.160 (listed under catalogue number 186)
• Gaunt, William (introduction), 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, 1969
• Simon, Robin (Ed), 'Lord Leighton' Apollo Magazine, 1996, p.71 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Leighton House Museum, London