Study for 'After Vespers': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'After Vespers': Composition
Date: c.1871
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 24.0 x 17.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0519
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Sketch for picture of a [illegible]" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "135" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower left "519" in pencil.

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'After Vespers' (c.1872, Art Museum, Princeton University). In the finished work the head is inclined to the left whereas here it is straight. 

 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.161 (listed under catalogue number 200) 

Exhibition history

• c.1990, 'Display of the Leighton House Drawings Collection in the Lower Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 27