Study for 'Helios and Rhodos': Helios and Rhodos

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Helios and Rhodos': Helios and Rhodos
Date: c.1868
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 29.0 x 21.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0508
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Helios & Rhodos" in pencil. Inscribed lower right corner "4" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper left "8A" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "Left" in pencil, erased. Inscribed on reverse, centre "154" in pencil.

Description

Nude study for the torso and right arm of Helios and the left arm of Rhodes in the painting 'Helios and Rhodos' (c.1869, Tate). 

Provenance

Acquired by Leighton House Museum before 1926 

Bibliography

• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.167, catalogue number 61e (illustrated)
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.160 (listed under catalogue number 190) 

Exhibition history

• 15 February 1996 to 21 April 1996, 'Frederic Leighton 1830-1896', The Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 61e