Study for 'Michel Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Composition

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Michel Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant': Composition
Date: c.1861
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 17.8 x 13.8 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1174
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No 7 a" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse "No 7 a".

Interpretation

This study may be traced from one of the chalk studies for the composition at Leighton House Museum (reference numbers LHO/D/0466-468).

Description

Outline Traced study for the composition of the painting 'Michel Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant' (c.1862, private collection). The drawing is squared up. 

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); presented to the Royal Academy of Arts, London by Matthews and Orr in 1896