Study for 'The Dance': Female Figures, Male Figure with Child

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Dance': Female Figures, Male Figure with Child
Date: c.1882
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 25.1 x 32.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0619
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, embossed. Inscribed on reverse, centre "L69" encircled, in pencil.

Interpretation

The study of a man with a child on this sheet may be an informal sketch of one of Leighton's friends with his daughter, or a young female model with her father.

Description

 

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.166 (listed under catalogue number 292) 

Exhibition history

• 10 March 1981 to 26 April 1981, 'Victorian Paintings at Riverside', Riverside Studios, London