Study for 'The Marquand Ceiling': Seated Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Marquand Ceiling': Seated Female Figure
Date: c.1885
Media: Red chalk on white paper
Dimensions: 25.6 x 18.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0646
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left illegible text in blue biro, seeped through from reverse. Inscribed lower right "Music room Ceiling" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "14" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre in pencil "I13" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on

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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

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.168 (listed under catalogue number 323)