Study for 'The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets...': Male Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets...': Male Head
Date: 1854
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 29.2 x 22.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0946
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Early Head" in pencil. Inscribed centre right "Bippimo Buti. / (detto il Moretto) / Roma. / 18 FL 54" in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed on reverse, centre "560" encircled, in red biro, changed to "600" in black ink, sc

Interpretation

Bonvicino, Alessandro also known as 'ill Moretto', or Moretto da Brescia.

Description

Study for the head of the standing male figure to the left of the painting 'The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets..' (c.1853-55, private collection). 

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. 

Bibliography

• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.193 catalogue number 310 

Exhibition history

• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 310 (exhibited in the Winter Studio)