Study for 'Actaea, Nymph of the Shore': Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Actaea, Nymph of the Shore': Female Figure
Date: c.1867
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 18.4 x 28.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0792
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Nymph picture" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, off centre "38" encircled, in pencil, written sideways. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H54" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, off centre right stamped "RBK" encircled, in

Description

Full-length nude study for the reclining female figure in the painting 'Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore' (c.1868, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). 

 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.159 (listed under catalogue number 182)