Study for 'The Bracelet': Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Bracelet': Female Figures
Date: c.1893
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 28.1 x 36.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0736
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "bracelet" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study for the female figure in the painting 'The Bracelet' (c.1894, private collection). Centre of sheet: full-length study for the same female figure. Right of sheet: full-length study for the same female figure. Far right of sheet: full-length study for the same female 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 385) 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 50