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.1887
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 27.4 x 36.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0672
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower right "Andromache" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "C43" in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study of two standing female figures. Probably an early idea for the painting 'Captive Andromache' (1888, City Art Gallery, Manchester). Centre of sheet: full-length study of the female figure with a pitcher dressed in black and with a white head scarf, to the left of the painting. The pose is similar to the finished work although the figure is turned to the left, rather than the right. Right of sheet: full-length study for the figure with back to the viewer, in blue, to the left of the painting. 

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) 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 27