Study for 'Solitude': Drapery For Female Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Solitude': Drapery For Female Figure
Date: c.1889
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 41.6 x 32.4 cm
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Picture credit: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear Museums)
Reference number: C13226
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower right "Solitude", in pencil.

Description

Half-length drapery study for the lower half of the female figure in the painting 'Solitude' (c.1890, Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, Washington). The waist and the right arm, resting across the left leg, are also indicated. 

Provenance

Collection of John George Joicey; bequeathed to the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, by Joicey, in 1919 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.170, (listed under catalogue number 348) 

Exhibition history

• 1972, 'Albert Moore and His Contemporaries', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, catalogue number 109
• 23 October 2004 to 13 March 2005, 'Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Watercolours', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle