Study for 'The Dance': Female Figure with Tambourine

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Dance': Female Figure with Tambourine
Date: c.1882
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 37.0 x 26.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0794
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, upper right "794" underlined, in blue biro. Inscribed on reverse, "341" underlined crossed out in blue biro. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre-right "259" encircled, crossed out

Description

Head and shoulders study of a female figure, in profile, facing to the right and playing a tambourine, for the painting 'The Dance' (c.1881-83, Leighton House 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