Study for 'Rizpah': Rizpah and Male Figure, Male Feet

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Rizpah': Rizpah and Male Figure, Male Feet
Date: c.1892
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 27.7 x 36.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0722
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "445" in black biro. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H57" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Upper left of sheet: nude study for part of the upper body of the figure of Rizpah, and the torso of the male figure behind, in the painting 'Rizpah' (c.1893, private collection). Centre of sheet: full-length nude study for the figure of Rizpah. Her sickle, part of the outline of her drapery, and part of the male figure behind her are also indicated. Lower right of sheet: study for the feet of the male figure. 

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.172 (listed under catalogue number 376) 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 4