Study for 'Rizpah': Rizpah, Male Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Rizpah': Rizpah, Male Figures
Date: c.1892
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 27.2 x 35.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0723
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed lower centre "Rizpah" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "423" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower right "59" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H46" enci

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study for the figures of Rizpah and a second male figure in the painting 'Rizpah' (c.1893, private collection). Right of sheet: full-length nude study for a male figure seen in the same 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

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172 (listed under catalogue number 376)