Study for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace': Males Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace': Males Figures
Date: c.1872
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 23.7 x 30.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0556
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Arts of Peace S Kensington" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "N11" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "2/2/" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper left "

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study for the male figure holding an oar, to the left of the fresco 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace' (1883-86, Victoria and Albert Museum). Upper centre left of sheet: study for the head of the same male figure. Right of sheet: full-length nude study for the same male figure. 

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.161 (listed under catalogue number 207)