Study for 'The Dance': Standing Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Dance': Standing Female Figures
Date: c.1882
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 33.1 x 21.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1748
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse, centre "1" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "F.43" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse of backing board, upper left, "583" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse of backing board, lower left "F. L. LEIGHTON STUDY for THE

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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; Sotheby's, London, 'Drawings from Britain and the Continent', 10 July 1995, (lot 215); 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.96, p.97 (lot 215)
• Newall, Christopher, 'Master Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', Peter Nahum, London, 1985, p.36-37 (lot 33, illustrated)