Studies for 'The Garden of the Hesperides' and 'Flaming June': Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'The Garden of the Hesperides' and 'Flaming June': Female Figures
Date: c.1891
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 30.4 x 23.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0704
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower right "Garden of Hesperides" in pencil.

Interpretation

This sheet includes studies for two paintings 'The Garden of the Hesperides' (c.1892, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight) and 'Flaming June' (c.1895, Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico). The similarlity between the poses suggests that the pose of the female figure in 'Flaming June' was inspired by the studies for the female figure to the left of 'The Garden of the Hesperides'.

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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

• Baldry, Alfred Lys, 'Lord Leighton's Sketches', The Magazine of Art, 1896, illustrated on p.74
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171 (listed under catalogue number 364)