Study for 'Cleobolus Instructing his daughter Cleoboline': Cleoboline

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cleobolus Instructing his daughter Cleoboline': Cleoboline
Date: c.1872
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 21.4 x 24.0 cm
Location: Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire
Picture credit: Wyre Forest District Council Museum Service, Calderdale Museums and Arts
Reference number: 1974-370.5
Inscriptions: Inscribed on mount "ú5.5.0[?]" in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: full-length nude study for the figure of Cleoboline in the painting 'Cleobolus Instructing his Daughter Cleoboline' (c.1872, private collection). Right of sheet: full-length nude study for the same figure. This two studies are almost identical. 

Provenance

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