Study for 'The Dance': Reclining Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Dance': Reclining Female Figures
Date: c.1882
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 16.5 x 30.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1749
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left of paper backing, "P.N." in pencil. Inscribed upper right of paper backing "4" in pencil.

Description

 

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 'Drawings from Britain and the Continent', 10 July 1995, (lot 217); purchased by Leighton House Museum from Sotheby's, with the support of the National Art Collections Fund, in 1995 

Bibliography

• Drawings from Britain and the Continent', Sotheby's London, 10 July 1995, illustrated p.96, p.97 (lot 217) (illustrated)
• Newall, Christopher, 'Master Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', Peter Nahum, London, 1985, p.36-37 (lot 34) (illustrated)