Study for 'And the sea gave up the dead which were in it': Male Figure

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'And the sea gave up the dead which were in it': Male Figure
Date: c.1882-84
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 30.4 x 22.3 cm
Location: Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Reference number: D1952.RW.3279
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Stamped lower left of mount "RMW".

Description

Left of sheet: half-length nude study for the upper body of the male figure, seen to the upper right of the painting 'And the sea gave up the dead which were in it'. Right of sheet: full-length nude study of the same figure in a kneeling pose. 

Provenance

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (painter and Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1838-1904); purchased by Sir Robert Clermont Witt, CBE, FSA (1872-1952, author and art collector) from Spink (n.d.); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery in 1952. 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.170
• Reynolds, Graham, '19th Century Drawings, 1850-1900', 1949, p.59
• Roe, F. Gordon, 'The Nude: From Cranach to Etty and Beyond', Lewis, Essex, 1944, plate 44 

Exhibition history

• 04 January 1897 to 13 March 1897, 'Exhibition of Works be the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', The Royal Academy of Arts, London
• 1900, Paris Exhibition (British Art Section), Paris
• 1943 to 1944, R.B.A. Suffolk Street, London
• 1949 to 1950, National Gallery of Canada, catalogue number 37
• 1951, American Federation of Arts, catalogue number 37
• 1966, Nottingham University