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Title:
Study for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...': Drapery for King
Date:
c.1853-55
Media:
Black chalk and bodycolour on white paper
Dimensions:
41.3 x 27.3 cm
Location:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit:
By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number:
E.1846-1910 verso
Upper half of sheet: drapery study for the upper torso and arms of the king seen on horseback to the right of the painting 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna...' (c.1853-55, Royal Collection). The interlinked fingers holding the reigns and neck are also drawn. Lower half of sheet: drapery study for an arm (probably the right arm) drawn from shoulder to wrist. The arm is held out straight but away from the body. To the right of this and drawn horizontally across the page is another drapery study for a straight arm (probably the left arm) and part of the shoulder.
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 R6, 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.
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'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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