Study after a Work by Giotto di Bondone

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Drawing details

Title: Study after a Work by Giotto di Bondone
Date: 1856
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1139 p.55
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left "Giotto, Padua '56" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

These figures represent the Virgin Mary and are copied from the fresco 'The Presentation of the Virgin' (c.1305) by Giotto di Bondone (Italian painter, 1267-1337) in the Capella degli Scrovegni (or Arena Chapel) in Padua.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of two standing female figures, a detail copied from the fresco 'The Presentation of the Virgin' (c.1305) by Giotto di Bondone (Italian painter, 1267-1337). 

Provenance

Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); sold through the Maas Gallery (art dealers) in 1969; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969