Study for 'A Girl Feeding Peacocks': Female Figure with Peacock

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'A Girl Feeding Peacocks': Female Figure with Peacock
Date: c.1862
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0650
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "Project" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "J.31" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Full-length study of a female figure with a peacock, probably an early idea for the painting 'A Girl Feeding Peacocks' (1863, untraced). 

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)