Study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Sleeping Female Figures

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Sleeping Female Figures
Date: c.1883
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 23.5 x 32.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0641
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower right "Study for Cymon and Iphigenia" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "D64" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper right "640" encircled, in pencil.

Description

 

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

  • 23 July 1983 to 20 August 1983, 'Tales Retold: Pictures on Themes from Boccaccio's Decameron', Derbyshire Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton

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