Study for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figure with Pitcher

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figure with Pitcher
Date: c.1887
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.3 x 27.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0670
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "5" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "12" in pencil, crossed out in black biro.

Interpretation

The drawing may be an early study for the second figure from the left, in the group by the well, to the right of the painting 'Captive Andromache' (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). A pencil copy of this this figure is in an album formerly belonging to Alexandra, Princess of Wales, in the Royal Library, Windsor (reference number 32442).

Description

Full-length standing female figure, facing the viewer. The figure's weight rests on the left hand which leans on a low wall. The right hand hangs by her side and holds a pitcher. The head is turned slightly to the left. The figure is in classical dress. This is possibly an early study for the figure dressed in orange and holding a pitcher, to the right of the painting 'Captive Andromache' (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). 

Provenance

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)