Study for 'Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis': Composition
Date: c.1870
Media: Pencil on brown tracing paper
Dimensions: 13.5 x 28.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0511
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Description

Tracing for the composition of the painting 'Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis' (c.1869-71, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford). The tracing is squared up. 

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 193)