Study for a Composition showing a Female Figure and a Fireplace

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Drawing details

Title: Study for a Composition showing a Female Figure and a Fireplace
Date: 1849
Media: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0426
Inscriptions: Signed, dated and inscribed on a fragment of paper, formerly mounted and framed with the drawing "F Leighton / Boulogne 49" in pencil.

Description

Composition showing a full-length view of a female figure, with back to viewer, seated by a fireside. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (n+e Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (n+e Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); presented by Matthews to Mr. Sandercock in c.1896; by descent to his son, T. C. Sandercock; presented to Leighton House Museum by T. C. Sandercock in 1958