Study for 'Perseus on Pegasus': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Perseus on Pegasus': Composition
Date: c.1895
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.8 x 27.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0691
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Perseus" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "22" in pencil. Inscribed upper right, "+1/2" / "64/8/72 / 16/5/80" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "A42" encircled, in pencil.

Interpretation

This drawing is similar to the finished composition and may be the drawing from which the squared up tracing, held at the Royal Academy of Arts, was made (reference number 04/760).

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'Perseus on Pegasus' (c.1895-96, Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester). This composition is very similar to the finished painting, although the mountains in the background have not been included. 

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, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.176 catalogue number 140d
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171 (listed under catalogue number 358)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Pu 

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 140d (exhibited in the large Studio)
• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 35