Studies for 'Antique Juggling Girl': Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Antique Juggling Girl': Female Figures
Date: c.1872
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 29.6 x 21.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0562
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower centre "[illegible]" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "E20" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Full-length nude study for the female figure in the painting 'Antique Juggling Girl' (c.1873, private collection). The juggling balls and the wreath around the head of the figure are also indicated. Lower right of sheet: full-length, rough nude study for the same female figure. The head and forearms are not indicated. 

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

• Anon., 'Catalogue of Drawings by the late Lord Leighton Preserved for the Nation', Leighton House Committee, 1897, p.24 catalogue number 9 (Studies from the Nude)
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.161 (listed under catalogue number 210) 

Exhibition history

• April 1897 to c.1899, 'Drawings by the late Lord Leighton Preserved for the Nation', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 9 'Studies from the Nude'