Studies for 'Music': Female Figure with Lyre, Male Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Music': Female Figure with Lyre, Male Figure
Date: c.1884
Media: Black and white chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions: 24.6 x 33.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1747
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre, "F32" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on former window mount, lower right, "Lord Leighton PRA / E. Heseltine Coll." in pencil. Inscribed on reverse of backing board, uppe

Description

Study for the seated female figure playing a lute, and a male figure for the painting 'Music' (1883-85, Leighton House Museum). 

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 J. P. Heseltine; Sotheby's, London, 'Drawings from Britain and the Continent', 10 July 1995, (lot 168); purchased by Leighton House Museum from Sotheby's, London with the support of the National Art Collections Fund, in 1995 

Bibliography

• Drawings from Britain and the Continent', 10 July 1995, Sotheby's London, illustrated, p.77 (lot 168)