Studies for 'Captive Andromache': Drapery for Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Captive Andromache': Drapery for Female Figures
Date: c.1887
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 52.4 x 37.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0683
Inscriptions: None

Description

Left of sheet: full-length drapery study for the female figure dressed in orange, immediately infront of Andromache in the painting 'Captive Andromache' (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). Upper right of sheet: study for the blue drapery in the hand of the female figure at the well, second from right in the painting. It is difficult to make out this fabric in the finished painting. Centre right of sheet: study for the knot of fabric held by the fingers of the hand of the previous figure in orange. Lower right of sheet: study for the black drapery, under a pitcher, to the far right of the painting. 

Provenance

Collection of Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

• Jones, Stephen, 'Attic Attitudes: Leighton and Aesthetic Philosophy', 'History Today', June 1987, illustrated on p.36
• 'Lord Leighton's Pictures: The Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1897', 'The Art Journal', 1897, illustrated on p.60
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 (listed under catalogue number 334)
• Rhys, Ernest, (prefatory essay by Stephens, F. G.) 'Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.: An Illustrated Chronicle', George Bell and Sons, L 

Exhibition history

• 04 January 1897 to 13 March 1897, 'Exhibition of Works be the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', The Royal Academy of Arts, London, possibly catalogue number 249