'Study for 'Paolo and Francesca': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: 'Study for 'Paolo and Francesca': Composition
Date: c.1860
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 48.4 x 36.6 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0463

Description

Tracing of the composition of the painting 'Paolo and Francesca' (c.1860-61, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad ). The composition is virtually the same as in the finished painting. 

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Emilie Isabel (Russell) Barrington (author and painter, 1844-1933); presented to Leighton House Museum in c.1897 

Bibliography

• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.188 catalogue number 230
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.153 (listed under catalogue number 65)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publ 

Exhibition history

• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 230a (exhibited in the glass studio)