Study for 'Count Paris...': Head of Romeo

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Count Paris...': Head of Romeo
Date: c.1857
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 13.0 x 11.4 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1119
Inscriptions: Inscribed centre "No. 19" in pencil.

Description

Traced study for the head of Romeo in the painting 'Count Paris...' (c.1856-58, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide). 

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 

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Image of painting unavailable. '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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