Study for 'Summer Slumber': Cat, Female Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Summer Slumber': Cat, Female Head
Date: c.1893
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 34.1 x 24.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0800

Description

Upper left of sheet: study for the central section of the head and face of the cat seen to the lower right of the painting 'Summer Slumber' (c.1894, private collection). Upper half of sheet: full-length study for the cat in the painting 'Summer Slumber'. Lower half of sheet: head and shoulders view of a female figure, with back to viewer, facing to the right. The hair is tied up and the shoulders are bare. 

 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 54