Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Male Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Male Head
Date: 1853
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 27.5 x 22.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/2177
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Fra Giuseppe. / Roma. / 18 FL 53." in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "7" in pencil.

Interpretation

A second drawing of the same model, made at the same time is at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (reference number ). In this version the monk is shown with the back of his head to the viewer.

Description

Study for the head of the male figure, dressed in black, wearing a red cap, immediately behind the Madonna and Child seen in the painting 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...' (c.1853-55, Royal Collection). 

Provenance

Purchased through the Robert Isaacson Gallery, New York, by David Daniels; collection of Stevan Baloga; bequeathed to Leighton House Museum by Baloga in 2003 

Bibliography

• Dorment, Richard, et al., 'Victorian High Renaissance: George Frederic Watts 1817-1904, Frederic Leighton 1830-1896, Albert Moore 1841-1893, Alfred Gilbert 1854-1934', Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978, p.100 catalogue number 37
• Gere, Charlotte, et al., 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2006, p.30 catalogue number 1.3 (illustrated)
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.150 (listed  

Exhibition history

• 01 September 1978 to 15 October 1978, 'Victorian High Renaissance', Manchester City Art Gallery (now Manchester Art Gallery), catalogue number 37
• 19 November 1978 to 07 January 1979, 'Victorian High Renaissance', Minneapolis Institute of Arts, U.S.A., catalogue number 37
• 10 February 1979 to 08 April 1979, 'Victorian High Renaissance', Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A., catalogue number 37
• 07 November 2003 to 22 February 04, 'The Canvas of Many Feet', Leighton House Museum, London
• 08 November