Study for 'The Return of Persephone': Drapery

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Return of Persephone': Drapery
Date: c.1891
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.438-1950
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Return of Proserpine" [sic] in pencil.

Description

Full-length drapery study for the figure of Persephone in the painting 'The Return of Persephone' (c.1891, City Art Gallery, Leeds). 

Provenance

Presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Mrs. C. Q. Henriques, through the National Art Collections Fund, in 1950. 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171 (listed under catalogue number 360)