Studies for 'Music': Female Arm

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Music': Female Arm
Date: c.1884
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 verso
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

Faint study for the right arm of the standing female figure, in profile, facing to the right, at the far left of the painting 'The Dance' (c.1881-83). 

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)