Study for 'Captive Andromache': Male Figures

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Captive Andromache': Male Figures
Date: c.1870
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 22.3 x 28.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0680
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower centre "1st Project Andromache" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "C63" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: half-length study for male figure facing the viewer to the lower left of the painting 'Captive Andromache' (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). Right of sheet: half-length study for the male figure in a red cap to the lower 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

• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.164 catalogue number 21p
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 (listed under catalogue number 334)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Pub 

Exhibition history

• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 21p (exhibited on the staircase)