Studies for 'Cimabue': Cimabue

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Cimabue': Cimabue
Date: c.1864
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 29.5 x 44.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0764
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Cimabue / S. Kensington" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "C11" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower left "55" encircled, in pencil, crossed out in blue biro

Description

Left of sheet: Full-length study for the figure of Cimabue for the mosiac 'Cimabue' (c.1864, The Victoria and Albert Museum). 

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 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.155 (listed under catalogue number 96)