Study for 'And the sea gave up the dead which were in it': Male Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'And the sea gave up the dead which were in it': Male Figure
Date: 1882-84
Media: Black and white on wove brown paper
Dimensions: 37.1 x 28.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1103
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left "Mrs Moiler[?] J&P[?] Col. C[illegible] 2 1/4 B size M 1 1/2 [illegible]" in pencil.

Description

Half-length study of a male figure, to the left foreground of the painting 'And the sea gave up the dead which were in it' (1891-92, Tate). 

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 'Victorian Watercolours and Drawings and Irish Pictures', 30 May 1985; purchased by Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

• 'The Magazine of Art', 1893, illustrated on p.194
• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.222, catalogue number 115t (illustrated p.229) 

Exhibition history

• 15 February 1996 to 21 April 1996, 'Frederic Leighton 1830-1896', The Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 115t