Study for 'Helios and Rhodos': Helios and Rhodos

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Helios and Rhodos': Helios and Rhodos
Date: c.1867
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.5 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1117
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "Helios & Rhodos 1868 No 77" in pencil.

Interpretation

This tracing may have been made from a similar pencil study in the collection at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/0507).

Description

Traced study for the group of two figures in the painting 'Helios and Rhodos' (1868, Tate Britain). The tracing 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 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.160 (listed under catalogue number 190 as reference number 22)