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Title:
Studies for 'Cymon and Iphigenia': Iphigenia
Date:
c.1884
Media:
Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions:
32.3 x 24.6 cm
Location:
Tate Britain, London
Reference number:
T09060
Inscriptions:
Inscribed lower right "Cimon & Iphigenia". Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.
Upper left of sheet: full-length study for the figure of Iphigenia in the painting 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (c.1884, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney). Lined up vertically down the centre of the sheet are four compositional sketches for the painting 'Cymon and Iphigenia'. Each of these differs from the final painting. The first shows two standing figures looking down on Iphigenia. A male figure sitting on the ground has been added to the right of the composition. The second composition shows three standing figures looking down on Iphigenia. The third composition, like the finished painting, shows just one standing figures looking down on Iphigenia and the fourth composition, at the bottom of the sheet, has no standing figures but does include a male figure sitting on the ground, again to the right of the composition. (In the final painting this figure has been moved to the left hand side.) In this final compositional sketch Leighton has also rotated the figure of Iphigenia so that she is viewed in greater perspective. To the lower right of the sheet is a study for the two sleeping female figures seen in the finished work, with the figure of Cymon standing behind them.
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