Studies for 'Bacchante': Composition, Head of Deer

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Bacchante': Composition, Head of Deer
Date: c.1891
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 25.8 x 23.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0714
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower centre "4" in pencil, written upside down. Inscribed on reverse, centre "M36" in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: study for the composition of the painting 'Bacchante' (c.1892, private collection). Upper right of sheet: outline study for the head of the deer in the painting. 

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.161 catalogue number 3b
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171 (listed under catalogue number 366) 

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 3b (exhibited in the dining room)
• c.1937, 'Coronation Exhibition', The Royal Society of British Artists, London
• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 11