Study for 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball': Female Figures

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball': Female Figures
Date: c.1889
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 31.8 x 26.5 cm
Location: Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire
Picture credit: Wyre Forest District Council Museum Service, Calderdale Museums and Arts
Reference number: 1974-370.1

Description

Left of sheet: full-length nude study for the figure to the left of the painting 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball (c.1889, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock). Right of sheet: full-length nude study for the female figure to the right of the same painting. 

Provenance

Presented to Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire, in the early 1930s 

Exhibition history

  • 25 March 2005 to 03 May 2005, 'Lord Leighton: Nymphs and Nudes', Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire, Bewdley

Related Paintings/Projects

'Greek Girls Playing at Ball' 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball'
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