Study for 'Captive Andromache': Drapery for Male Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Captive Andromache': Drapery for Male Figure
Date: c.1887
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 55.6 x 36.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0681
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed centre "Andromache" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "9" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper right "C76" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Three-quarter length drapery study for the male figure, wearing a red hat, to the lower left of the painting 'Captive Andromache' (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). The head and arms, and the stick and bundle he holds, are also lightly indicated. The model is clean shaven, whereas in the finished painting he has a thick beard and moustache. 

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 39