Study for 'Return of Persephone': Hermes and Persephone, Hands and Drapery for Hermes

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Return of Persephone': Hermes and Persephone, Hands and Drapery for Hermes
Date: c.1890
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.1 x 28.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0695
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower centre, "Return of Persephone" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "D79" 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

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171 (listed under catalogue number 360) 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 58