Studies for 'The Light of the Harem': Female Figure

Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'The Light of the Harem': Female Figure
Date: c.1880
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 20.3 x 31.8 cm
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.489-1931

Description

Three studies for the central female figure in the painting 'The Light of the Harem' (c.1880, untraced). 

Provenance

Collection of Frederick Louis Lucas (d.1931); bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Frederick Louis Lucas in 1931 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.165 (listed under catalogue number 273)