Studies for 'The Daphnephoria' and 'Clytemnestra': Female Figures

Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'The Daphnephoria' and 'Clytemnestra': Female Figures
Date: c.1875
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 15.2 x 23.5 cm
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.1840-1910

Description

Sheet of early studies for the figures in the paintings 'The Daphnephoria', (c.1874-76, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight) and 'Clytemnestra' (c.1874, Leighton House Museum) 

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); purchased by the Fine Art Society (Fine Art Society reference number B74, originally priced at ú2:2:0); one of 55 drawings purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum from the Fine Art Society for a total of ú135:18:0 (including a 10% discount) in 1896. 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.163 (listed under catalogue number 237)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, p.227