Sheet of Notes

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Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
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: 1946.35.51 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "St. Luke's Rome / [illegible] Titian (sketch) / scumbled over light grey / or over cool prep [word crossed out] underp [illegible] grey ground in [illegible] - / a sketch by Rubens on grey / (black washed over white). / 152 - 174.214,105.1

Interpretation

Leighton was very interested in the painting methods of the Old Masters. These detailed notes where made whilst studying the paintings of Titan and Rubens.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

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.