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Title:
Study for 'Count Paris...': Composition
Date:
c.1857
Media:
Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions:
10.3 x 15.3 cm
Location:
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit:
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number:
04/1152
Inscriptions:
Inscribed lower right "No.89" in pen and ink.
A squared up outline Traced study for the composition of the painting 'Count Paris...' (c.1856-58, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide).
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
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'Count Paris, accompanied by Friar Laurence and a band of musicians, comes to the house of the Capulets to claim his bride; he finds Juliet stretched apparently lifeless on her bed (The Feigned Death of Juliet)'
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