Study for 'The Jealousy of Simoetha the Sorceress': Female Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Jealousy of Simoetha the Sorceress': Female Head
Date: c.1886
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 18.7 x 14.8 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1133

Interpretation

The pose of this figure is also similar to the female figure in the painting 'Antigone' (c.1882, untraced).

Description

Traced study for the female head in the painting 'The Jealousy of Simoetha the Sorceress' (c.1887, untraced). 

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