Study for 'The Dance': Dancing Girl

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Dance': Dancing Girl
Date: c.1882
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 33.0 x 25.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0620
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed upper right "A" in pencil. Inscribed lower left "i/i/" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "Decoration" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper centre "THE DANCE 1883 / ACC NO 620" in black biro

Description

Full-length drapery study for the female child in dark yellow and dancing, to the left of the painting 'The Dance' (c.1881-83, Leighton House Museum). The head, arms and legs are also 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.26 catalogue number 6 (Studies for two Friezes "Music" and "The Dance")
• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.187 catalogue number 224a
• Gere, Cha 

Exhibition history

• April 1897 to c.1899, 'Drawings by the late Lord Leighton Preserved for the Nation', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 6 (Studies for two Friezes "Music" and "The Dance")
• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 224 (exhibited in the passage)
• 19 September 2005 to 09 December 2005, 'The Leighton Drawings Project: A Preview', Leighton House Museum, London
• 08 November 2006 t