Study for 'Return of Persephone': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Return of Persephone': Composition
Date: c.1890
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 26.9 x 20.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0694
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Interpretation

This drawing was on display in the Silk Room at Leighton House Museum in 1899.

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'Return of Persephone' (c.1891, City Art Gallery, Leeds). 

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.169 catalogue number 53a
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171 (listed under catalogue number 360)
• Rhys, Ernest, (prefatory essay by Stephens, F. G.) 'Sir Frederic Leighton,  

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 53a (exhibited in the Silk Room)
• 1969, 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 133