Study After a Fresco Attributed to Giotto di Bondone

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Drawing details

Title: Study After a Fresco Attributed to Giotto di Bondone
Date: 1852-55
Media: Pencil and watercolour on white paper
Dimensions: 21.3 x 16.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0952
Inscriptions: Signed lower centre "Fred Leighton" in brown ink.

Interpretation

This may be a copy of a watercolour by Seymour Stocker Kirkup (1788-1880), a British artist who was the leader of a literary circle in Florence and a friend of Leighton's friend, Robert Browning (poet, 1812-1889). Leighton met Kirkup in Florence in November 1853 and Leighton's copies of other works by Kirkup are in an album at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/1139A/p.21 verso)

Description

Copy of the head and shoulders of Dante from the fresco discovered in the Bargello Chapel (c.1336-37, Bargello Chapel, Florence) attributed to Giotto (Italian painter, 1267-1337).