Study for an Unidentified Portrait of a Female Figure: Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for an Unidentified Portrait of a Female Figure: Composition
Date: c.1872
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 23.7 x 32.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0560 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Arts of Peace S. Kensington" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "N12" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "1.11.6" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower left "2 / 2" in pencil.

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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)