Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Hands

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Hands
Date: c.1854
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 30.8 x 22.3 cm
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.1843-1910
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Carlo, Roma". Monographed "FL". Inscribed on reverse, centre "O80" in pencil, encircled.

Description

Study of four hands for the painting 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...' (c.1853-55, Royal Collection). 

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 O80, originally priced at ú4:4:0); 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.150 (listed under catalogue number 23)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, p.226 

Exhibition history

• 06 November 2003 to 01 February 2004, 'The Canvas of Many Feet: Frederic Leighton in Rome, 1852-55', Leighton House Museum, London