Study for 'Music': Drapery for Female Figure with Lyre

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Music': Drapery for Female Figure with Lyre
Date: c.1884
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 32.5 x 23.8 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/640
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Project" in pencil.

Description

Full-length drapery study for the seated female figure playing a lyre, in profile, facing to the right, in the painting 'Music' (1883-85, Leighton House Museum). Part of the right arm is also indicated. 

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