Study for 'The Daphnephoria': Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Daphnephoria': Female Figure
Date: c.1875
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 28.5 x 18.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0578
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Description

Full-length drapery study for the young female figure lifting up her dress with both hands, just left of centre in the painting 'The Daphnephoria' (1874-76, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). 

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

• Baldry, Alfred Lys, 'Lord Leighton's Sketches', 'The Magazine of Art', 1896, illustrated on p.69
• Corkran, Alice, 'Frederic Leighton', Methuen and Co., London, 1904, illustrated opposite p.123
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.163 (listed under catalogue number 237)