Study after a Painting by Lorenzo Monaco

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Drawing details

Title: Study after a Painting by Lorenzo Monaco
Date: 1859
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.116
Inscriptions: Inscribed and dated "Il Lorenzo Monaco, Uffizi /59" in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

This study is a detail copied from the painting 'Adoration of the Magi' (c.1422) by Lorenzo Monaco (Italian painter, 1370-1425) in the Uffizi Gallerie in Florence. Leighton copied many of the Renaissance portraits and busts in the Uffizi early in his career.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of one of the three kings bearing a gift, a detail from the painting 'Adoration of the Magi' (c.1422) by Lorenzo Monaco (Italian painter, 1370-1425). 

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