Study for 'Tragic Poetess': Female Figure with Chair

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Tragic Poetess': Female Figure with Chair
Date: c.1889
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 56.5 x 36.6 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0689
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" embossed. Inscribed lower right "The Tragic Poetess" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "23" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed lower left "5" encircled, crossed out, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower right "Tragic Poetess" i

Description

Study for the female figure in the painting 'Tragic Poetess' (1890, private collection). 

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.170 (listed under catalogue number 352)