Study for 'Rizpah': Rizpah, Male Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Rizpah': Rizpah, Male Figures
Date: 1863-64
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 23.0 x 29.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0726
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Rizpah" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H.43" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "1.11.6" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "9/9/-" in penci

Interpretation

The composition of the painting 'Rizpah' may have been first designed as an illustration for the 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' which would explain why this study is on the blue paper Leighton used from about 1855 to 1877.

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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)