Study of a Male Figure

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Drawing details

Title: Study of a Male Figure
Date: c.1854
Media: Black chalk and bodycolour on paper
Dimensions: 40.7 x 24.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/488 recto
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left "22" encircled, in pencil.

Interpretation

This study is probably related to the painting 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...' (c.1853-55, Royal Collection), which includes a group of people on a balcony on the far left.

Description

Full-length nude study of a male figure shown facing the viewer and leaning forwards, over a balcony. 

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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Related Paintings/Projects

'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence; in front of the Madonna, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue himself, with his pupil Giotto; behind it Arnolfo Di Lapo, Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Niccola Pisa 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence; in front of the Madonna, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue himself, with his pupil Giotto; behind it Arnolfo Di Lapo, Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Niccola Pisa
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