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 grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 28.1 x 36.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0739

Description

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

 

Bibliography

• Barringer, Tim and Prettejohn, Elizabeth (editors), 'Frederic Leighton: Antiquity Renaissance Modernity', Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1999, p.29
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172 (listed under catalogue number 382)
• Simon, Robin (editor), 'Lord Leighton 1830-1896 and Leighton House: A Centenary Celebration', Apollo Magazine, London, 1996, p.39 

Exhibition history

• 01 November 2001 to 27 January 2002, 'Exposed: The Victorian Nude', Tate Britain, London, catalogue number 120
• 18 February 2002 to 26 May 2002, 'Exposed: The Victorian Nude', Haus der Kunst, Munich, catalogue number
• February 2003 to August 2003, Prefectural Museum and Kobe City Museum, Kobe, and University Art Museum, Tokyo