'A Condottiere'

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Painting details

Title: 'A Condottiere'
Date: c.1872
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 119 x 72 cm
Location: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume II p.193

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by the Public Picture Gallery Fund and presented to the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham in 1873

Bibliography

• Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume II p.193
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.161
• Rhys, Ernest, 'Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work', George Bell and Sons, London, 1900, p.31

Exhibition history

• 1872, Royal Academy, catalogue number 518
• 1872, Royal Society of British Artists, catalogue number 122
• 1893, Royal Society of British Artists, catalogue number 334
• 1968, Leicester, catalogue number 26