Study for 'Solitude': Drapery for Female Figure

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Solitude': Drapery for Female Figure
Date: c.1890
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 46.5 x 29.7 cm
Location: Royal Library, Windsor
Picture credit: The Royal Collection (c) 2005, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Reference number: 13508
Inscriptions: Stamped lower right "GR" embossed.

Interpretation

This drawing was reproduced in the 'The Art Journal' of 1890 (p.147), for an article on the summer exhibitions of 1890. The painting 'Solitude' (c.1890, Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, Washington), was exhibited at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. It was also reproduced in the same year by 'The Magazine of Art' (p.219), where art critic M. H. Spielmann, suggests that the draped figure "personifies the silence of the swift brown tarns [small mountain lakes] of Scotland".

Description

Drapery study for the female figure in the painting 'Solitude' (c.1890, Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, Washington). 

 

Bibliography

• The Art Journal', 1890, p.147
• 'The Magazine of Art' 1890, p.219
• 'The Magazine of Art', 1896, p.208
• Miller, Delia 'The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen', Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 1995, p.542-3 (catalogue number 3336, illustrated)
• Ormond, Leonee and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University press, London, 1975, p.170 (listed under catalogue number 348)