Study for 'Phoenicians Bartering with Ancient Britons': Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Phoenicians Bartering with Ancient Britons': Female Figure
Date: c.1894
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 36.5 x 27.6 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0785
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "435" encircled, in black biro, crossed out in black biro. Inscribed on reverse, centre "E69" encircled, in pencil.

Interpretation

There is a second, much lighter sketch for this figure, also in the collection at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/0753 verso).

Description

Full-length nude study for the kneeling female figure seen second from the left in the fresco 'Phoenicians Bartering with Ancient Britons' (1894-95, Royal Exchange). 

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