Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Drapery for Male and Female Figures, Hand

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Drapery for Male and Female Figures, Hand
Date: c.1854
Media: Black chalk and white bodycolour on white paper
Dimensions: 47.5 x 33.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0831
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "Early Study" in pencil. Inscribed centre right "border [illegible] & [illegible] upper" in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed on reverse, lower right "N22" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: Drapery study for the figure directly behind Giotto in the painting 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...' (c.1853-55, Royal Collection). Upper centre of sheet: Study for the left hand of the same figure. The sleeve and drapery held in the hand is also indicated. Right of sheet: study for the left sleeve of the male figure with one hand on his hip, to the right of the painting. Centre right of sheet: study for a band of fabric across the chest of the female figure holding a sheet of music to the left of the painting. Lower right of sheet: study for the tunic 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 (Fine Art Society reference number N22); collection of Leighton House Museum; purchased from the Fine Art Society by Mrs. Emilie Isabel (Russell) Barrington (author and painter, 1844-1933) for ú5:5:0; presented to Leighton House Museum by Barrington in c.1897 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.168 (listed under catalogue number 313) 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'Display of Drawings and Paintings in the Winter Studio and Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 6

Reproductions

Cockerell, Samuel Pepys (Foreward), 'Catalogue of a Collection of Studies for Pictures, Designs and Sketches by the Late Lord Leighton, P.R.A.', The Fine Art Society, London, 1896, p.17 catalogue number 25; Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.150 (listed under catalogue number 23)