Study for 'The Family of Darius before Alexander': Female Head, Hands

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Family of Darius before Alexander': Female Head, Hands
Date: 1856-77
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 27.5 x 28.1 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0761
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "P" in pencil, lower half of letter cut off, this probably said "Project". Inscribed on reverse, centre "J.14" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on the reverse, lower right "40" in pencil, changed to "41", crossed out in pencil.

Description

Five full-length studies of female figures in the composition 'The Family of Darius before Alexander'. 

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 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 63