Study for 'Music': Male and Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Music': Male and Female Figures
Date: c.1884
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.8 x 27.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0627
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, embossed. Inscribed lower centre "Decoration" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "128" in pencil, encircled, crossed out in blue biro. Inscribed on reverse, centre "F45" encircled, in pencil.

Interpretation

The chair is a klismos chair, a design from ancient Greece.

Description

Upper half of sheet: full-length study for the seated female figure to the far right of the painting 'Music' (c.1883-85, Leighton House Museum). The chair, footstool and the animal skin which falls from the chair are also indicated. Lower half of sheet: full-length study for the recling male figure 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.167 (listed under catalogue number 309)