Study for 'Summer Slumber': Sleeping Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Summer Slumber': Sleeping Female Figure
Date: c.1893
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 17.2 x 28.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0738

Description

Full-length, nude study for the reclining figure in the foreground of the painting 'Summer Slumber' (c.1894, private collection). 

 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172 (listed under catalogue number 382)