Study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Iphigenia

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Iphigenia
Date: c.1884
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 11.2 x 23.1 cm
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Picture credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Reference number: WA1950.178.283
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on mount, lower centre "FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON" in brown ink. Inscribed on mount, lower right "CHARLES EMANUEL GIFT 1950" in brown ink. Inscribed on mount, upper left "9" in pencil. Inscrib

Interpretation

This is one of several studies Leighton made for the figure of Iphigenia in the painting 'Cymon and Iphigenia', (c.1884, private collection).

Description

Full-length study of the figure of Iphigenia in the centre of the painting 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (c.1884, private collection). 

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; presented to the Ashmolean Museum by Charles Emanuel in 1950