Study for 'Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon': Composition
Date: c.1868
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 21.4 x 11.6 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0502
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Electra" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper centre "34" in pencil, crossed out in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower left "E37" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon' (c.1869, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull). 

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 7a
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.160 (listed under catalogue number 188)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publ 

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 7a (exhibited in the dining room)