Study for 'The Wise and Foolish Virgins': Female Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Wise and Foolish Virgins': Female Head
Date: c.1863
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 13.3 x 9.5 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1118

Description

Traced study for the head of a female figure to the right of the fresco 'The Wise and Foolish Virgins' (1862-64, St. Michael's Church, Lyndhurst). 

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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