Study for 'Flaming June': Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Flaming June': Female Figure
Date: c.1894
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.7 x 28.1 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0742
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "B92" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Full-length study for the reclining female figure in the painting 'Flaming June' (c.1895, Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico). 

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 (Fine Art Society reference number B92); purchased from the Fine Art Society by Herbert Percy Horne of 4 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London for ú21:0:0; presented to Leighton House Museum. 

Bibliography

• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.161 catalogue number 1c
• Cockerell, Samuel Pepys (Foreward), 'Catalogue of a Collection of Studies for Pictures, Designs and Sketches by the Late Lord Leighton, P.R.A.', The Fine Art Society, London, 1896, p.27 catalogue numer 

Exhibition history

• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 1c (exhibited in the Dining Room)
• 08 November 2006 to 25 February 2007, 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 6.2