Studies for 'Dante in Exile' and for Illustrations to 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Death of the First Born', 'Eliezer and Rebekah', Male and Female Figures, Male Legs, Male Hands

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Dante in Exile' and for Illustrations to 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Death of the First Born', 'Eliezer and Rebekah', Male and Female Figures, Male Legs, Male Hands
Date: 1863-64
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 29.3 x 44.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0782
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "J33" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "182" or "782" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Upper left of sheet: full-length study for the group of four figures to the right of the illustration 'Death of the First Born' for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' (published 1880-81). Lower left of sheet: full-length study for the female figure just left of centre, in the background of the illustration 'Eliezer and Rebekah' for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' (published 1881, 'The Cornhill Magazine'). To the right is a full-length study for the female figure to the extreme left of the illustration. Upper centre of sheet: half-length study for the praying female figure to the left of the illustration 'Death of the First Born'. Centre of sheet: full-length study for the female figure with a baby to the upper left of the illustration 'Death of the First Born'. Lower centre of sheet: half-length study for the female figure at the upper right of the illustration 'Eliezer and Rebekah'. Centre right of sheet: full-length study for the seated male figure to the right of the painting 'Dante in Exile' (c.1864, private collection). Unlike the figure in the painting, this figure does not have a beard or wear a cap. Upper right of sheet: Study for the left hand of the seated male figure to the right of the painting 'Dante in Exile'. Below this is a study for the right hand of the same figure. 

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 38