Study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Drapery for Sleeping Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Drapery for Sleeping Female Figure
Date: c.1883
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 34.6 x 52.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0640
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower right "Cymon and Iphigenia" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "D29" encircled, in pencil, crossed out in pencil.

Description

Half-length drapery study for the lower half of the sleeping female figure to the right of the painting 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (c.1884, private collection). The lower half of the female child in front of her is 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

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.168 (listed under catalogue number 313) 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 64