Study of Reclining Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study of Reclining Female Figures
Date: 1891-96
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 26.2 x 35.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0639
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Cymon and Iphigenia" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "D61" encircled, in pencil.

Interpretation

Although these figures are similar to the reclining female figures in the painting 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (c.1884, private collection), this is probably a later drawing and may be related to the painting 'The Garden of Hesperides' (c.1892, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight).

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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

• Corkran, Alice, 'Frederic Leighton', Methuen and Co., London, 1904, illustrated opposite p.162
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.168 (listed under catalogue number 313)