Composition showing a Monk Dividing Two Enemies

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Drawing details

Title: Composition showing a Monk Dividing Two Enemies
Date: 1852
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 29.0 x 22.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0969
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left "Ulm 18 FL 52" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

In 1852 Leighton set off from Frankfurt, where he had been living and studying under Eduard Jakob von Steinle (German 'Nazarene' painter, 1810-1886), to Rome, where he would live for the next three years. This drawing was made during the journey to Rome when Leighton was accompanied by his master, Steinle. It has been suggested that this study "shows most clearly the influence of Steinle's teaching". It was given the title of 'A Monk Dividing Two Enemies' by Mrs. Barrington. There is another, more finished, and slightly different version of the same design at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/0871). [Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel (preface), 'Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, Leighton House, London, p.143]

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Provenance

Collection of Mrs Emilie Isabel (Russell) Barrington (author and painter, 1844-1933); presented to Leighton House Museum by Barrington in c.1897 

Bibliography

• Anon., 'Catalogue of Drawings by the late Lord Leighton Preserved for the Nation', Leighton House Committee, 1897, catalogue number 13 "Studies for Designs"
• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel (preface), '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.143, p.189 catalogue number 251
• Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 

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 251 (exhibited on the west wall of the glass studio)