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.
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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