Study for 'The Marquand Ceiling': Terpsichore, Erato and Cherub

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Marquand Ceiling': Terpsichore, Erato and Cherub
Date: c.1885
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 22.7 x 30.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0654
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse, upper right "61" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "F15" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: nude study for the figure of a Terpischore in the right hand panel of the painting 'The Marquand Ceiling' (c.1886, private collections). The figure is placed within a frame and the tambourine and drapery are lightly marked in. Right of sheet: composition of the left hand panel of the painting 'The Marquand Ceiling' (c.1886, private collections). Rough drawing with the decoration in the painted frame of the finished work roughly indicated. 

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)