Study for 'Idyll': Male Figure Playing a Flute, Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Idyll': Male Figure Playing a Flute, Female Figures
Date: c.1880
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 23.4 x 32.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0771
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "[illegible] Idyll" in pencil, erased. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "E11" encircled, in pencil, crossed out in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre right "I33" encircled, in penc

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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.165 (listed under catalogue number 276)