Study for 'Lady Sybil Primrose (Grant)': Girl

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Lady Sybil Primrose (Grant)': Girl
Date: c.1884-85
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 30.5 x 20.0 cm
Location: The British Museum, London
Picture credit: The Trustees of The British Museum, London
Reference number: 1897,0512.31
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left with the monogram "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Description

Full-length study of the young female figure in the painting 'Lady Sybil Primrose (Grant)' (c.1885, private collection). A chair can be seen behind the figure. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (nTe Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (nTe Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; purchased from the Fine Art Society by The British Museum, London in 1897 (with 30 others drawings for a total of ú300) 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.168 (listed under catalogue number 319)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Co., London, 1906, p.225 

Exhibition history

• 1901, 'Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches', The British Museum, London, catalogue number B 270