Studies of a Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Studies of a Female Figures
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.16

Interpretation

Stephen Jones, former curator at Leighton House Museum, suggested that these drawings may be early ideas for the water carriers in the painting 'Captive Andromache'. (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery).

Description

Page from a sketchbook. Studies of female figures with baskets or pitchers, possibly for the water carriers in the painting 'Captive Andromache'. (c.1888, Manchester Art Gallery). 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.