Studies for 'The Garden of the Hesperides': Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'The Garden of the Hesperides': Female Figures
Date: c.1892
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 28.6 x 32.0 cm
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Picture credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Reference number: WA1988.333
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Garden of Hesperides" in pencil. Stamped, lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "A67" in pencil. Inscribed on mount, lower centre "Leighton" in pencil. Inscribed on mount, upper left "20" in pencil.

Interpretation

These studies are also similar to studies for the painting 'Flaming June' (1895-96, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico) and both paintings were probably inspired by the same drawings.

Description

Four female figure studies. 

Provenance

Bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum by Mrs Helen Forbes Fearn in 1988