Study for 'Rizpah': Male Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Rizpah': Male Figure
Date: c.1892
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.8 x 27.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0725
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Rizpah" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "A49" encircled, in pencil, written sideways. Inscribed on reverse, centre "21/-" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, upper centre "

Description

Full-length drapery study for the drapery falling from the head and cross of Mephibosheth in the painting 'Rizpah' (c.1893, private collection). The figure of Mephibosheth and the cross are also lightly sketched in. Lower right of sheet: study of the drapery covering the head only. 

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

• Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander, 'The Royal Academy Exhibition - I', 'The Magazine of Art', 1893, illustrated on p.220
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172 (listed under catalogue number 376)