Studies for 'Summer Slumber': Female Figure

Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Summer Slumber': Female Figure
Date: c.1894
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 32.9 x 23.9 cm
Location: The British Museum, London
Reference number: 1897,0512.18

Description

Left of sheet: study for the heavily draped female figure to the left and in the background of the painting 'Summer Slumber (c.1894, private collection). Centre of sheet: study for the same figure in the same pose but rather than facing the viewer as in the painting, in profile, facing to the right. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (nTe Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (nTe Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; purchased from the Fine Art Society by The British Museum, London in 1897 (with 30 others drawings for a total of ú300) 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172, (listed under catalogue number 382)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Co., London, 1906, p.225
• 'The Yellow Book', April 1894, volume I, illustrated as frontispiece 

Exhibition history

• 1901, 'Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches', The British Museum, London, catalogue number B 274