Study for an Illustration for 'Buch der Lieder': Male and Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for an Illustration for 'Buch der Lieder': Male and Female Figures
Date: c.1850
Media: Pencil and watercolour
Dimensions: 23.4 x 30.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0863
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Design for Picture - Early" in pencil. Inscribed lower centre "i/i/" in pencil. Inscribed lower right corner "67" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "444" encircled, in bl

Description

Left of sheet: full-length rough study of a kneeling elderly male figure, turned to the left. To the right of this figure is a full-length study of a standing female figure turned to the left, with arms folded. Right of sheet: full-length study of a kneeling elderly male figure, in profile, facing to the right. Upper right of sheet: study of a crown. 

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 

Exhibition history

• 19 September 2005 to 09 December 2005, 'The Leighton Drawings Project: A Preview', Leighton House Museum, London