Study for 'Boy with a Shield Holding a Vase': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Boy with a Shield Holding a Vase': Composition
Date: c.1868
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 29.7 x 12.9 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/717
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No 95 [or possibly 45]" in pencil.

Interpretation

Studies for this picture are also to be found in the RA sketchbooks (LEI/22, and LEI/24-25) and an untraced drawing is reproduced in Newall, Christopher, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1990, p.69 fig.45.

Description

Traced study for the composition of the painting 'Boy with a Shield Holding a Vase' (c.1869, Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro). The drawing 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 191).