Study for 'Winding the Skein': Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Winding the Skein': Female Figures
Date: c.1877
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 18.4 x 25.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0584
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Interpretation

In this study the figures are drawn closer together than in the finished painting.

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study for the female figure to the left of the painting 'Winding the Skein' (c.1878, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney). Right of sheet: full-length study for the girl to the right of the painting. 

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.164 (listed under catalogue number 249)