Study after a Work by Cimabue

Drawing details

Title: Study after a Work by Cimabue
Date: c.1854-59
Media: Pencil on white 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.83
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left "Cimabue" in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed upper centre "Cimabue" in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed upper right "Cim" in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed lower right "([Illegible] Uffizi)" in pencil, in

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of a composition showing a Madonna, a standing figure and a seated group. 

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 

Related Paintings/Projects

Image of painting unavailable. Album of Drawings, Formerly Belonging to Adelaide Sartoris
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