Studies for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace': Male and Female Figures

Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace': Male and Female Figures
Date: c.1872
Media: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.1686-1963
Inscriptions: Inscribed "S. Kensington" in pencil. Stamped with the monograph "FL".

Description

Upper centre of sheet: study for the male figure, lowering a heavy weight, at the left hand side of the fresco 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace' (1883-86, The Victoria and Albert Museum). Right of sheet: study for the male figure behind the previous figure with the left hand by his hip and the right hand to his forehead. Left of sheet: study for the male figure who is lowering a heavy weight seen more from the right side than in the finished work. Lower centre: study for the two seated female figures in the background of the right hand side of the fresco. 

Provenance

Collection of G. S. Tomkinson, Kidderminster; sold through Sotheby's, London July 1935; sold through the sale 'Old & Modern Pictures' at W. E. Coe & Sons, 79-85 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 20 November 1963; purchased for ú12:0:0 by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1963. 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.161 (listed under catalogue number 207)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, p.228