Study for 'Lachrymae': Female Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Lachrymae': Female Head
Date: c.1894
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 26.3 x 22.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0708
Inscriptions: None

Interpretation

There are surprisingly few remaining studies for this painting, completed just before Leighton's death in 1895.

Description

Study for the head of the female figure in the painting 'Lachrymae' (c.1895, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The hair is roughly sketched in. 

Provenance

Collection of Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.173 (listed under catalogue number 388)