Study for 'The Marquand Ceiling': Boy

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Marquand Ceiling': Boy
Date: c.1885
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 28.9 x 36.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0653
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right, "Marquand Ceiling" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "11" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "F16" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "Ceiling of music room studies" in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: study for the figure of a boy seen in the right hand panel of the painting 'The Marquand Ceiling' (c.1886, probably private collections). The double-flute and the wreath around his head are also shown. There is also an indication of drapery behind him. Right of sheet: smaller, less finished study for the same figure. In this version the figure stands on his left leg and raises the right leg. Lower centre of sheet: study of the right leg of the boy, raised until it is almost horiziontal. In the finished work it is the left leg which is raised. 

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)