Study for 'The Family of Darius before Alexander': Female Figures, Children

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Family of Darius before Alexander': Female Figures, Children
Date: 1856-77
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 23.1 x 32.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0760
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse, lower left "3" in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: study of a female head for the composition 'The Family of Darius before Alexander'. The figures faces the opposite way in other drawings for this composition. Right of sheet: study of a left and right female hand for the same composition.