Study for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figures with Pitchers

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figures with Pitchers
Date: c.1870
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 22.7 x 30.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0665
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink, cut in half by edge of paper. Inscribed lower centre "Project" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "183" encircled, in black biro, crossed out in blue biro. Inscribed on reverse, centre "K.8" enci

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study of a standing female figure, turned to the left. The head is turned to face the viewer and she holds a pitcher against her legs at arms length. This may be a study for the figure immediately behind Andromache in the painting 'Captive Andromache' (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). Centre of sheet: full-length study for the same figure, facing the viewer with head turned to the right. Upper centre right of sheet: full-length study for the same figure, in profile, turned to the right. Upper right of sheet: full-length study for the standing female figure, holding a pitcher against her left shoulder, seen to the left of the painting 'Captive Andromache' at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/663). Lower right of sheet: full-length study of a nude, reclining female figure, lying on her right side. 

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.169 (listed under catalogue number 334)