Studies for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figures with Pitchers

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figures with Pitchers
Date: c.1888
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 27.7 x 37.0 cm
Location: The William Morris Gallery, London
Picture credit: The William Morris Gallery, London
Reference number: Br D 27
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Andromache" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "C37" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study of a draped female figure, resting a vase sideways on her right shoulder, facing viewer, with her right arm curled around the vase and her left hand supporting the lip of the vase. This may be a study for the figure, just seen in the background at the far left of the canvas. Centre of sheet: full-length study of a draped female figure resting a vase sideways on her right hip. This may relate to the figure left of centre of the painting 'Captive Andromache', although the pose is not identical. Right of sheet: full-length study for the female figure to the left of the canvas, holding a vase at shoulder height. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (nTe Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (nTe Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896 (Fine Art Society reference number C37); purchased from the Fine Art Society by Douglas W. Freshfield for ú10:10:0 on 14 May 1897; Barbizon House (private gallery); Sir Frank Brangwyn, painter, (1867-1956); presented to The William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, by Sir Frank Brangwyn in 1935 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 (listed under catalogue number 334) 

Exhibition history

• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1935