Study for 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball': Female Figures, Drapery, Pitchers

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball': Female Figures, Drapery, Pitchers
Date: c.1888
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 37.0 x 28.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0684
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower centre "Ball players" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "F.57" encircled, in pencil.

Description

 

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, Leighton House, London, p.162 catalogue number 17a
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 (listed under catalogue number 334 and 343)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, p.213 

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 17a (exhibited in the Dining Room)
• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 65