Study for 'Captive Andromache': Male Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Captive Andromache': Male Figure
Date: c.1887
Media: Black 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 verso
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.

Interpretation

This study is on the reverse of a more finished study for the painting (reference number LHO/D/0681).

Description

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

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