'Bianca'

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Painting details

Title: 'Bianca'
Date: c.1881
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 70.0 x 56.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Description

Half-length female figure, turned to the right. The hands are clasped against the waist. The figure is in a white contemporary dress. To the upper right of the composition are two white doves and some flowers. To the left of the composition a curved wall, with drapery hanging over it, can be seen.

Provenance

Collection of Arthur Lucas; by descent to Lady Lucas; presented to Leighton House Museum by Lucas in 1945

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.164, catalogue number 286

Exhibition history

• 1881, 'Royal Academy Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 1417
• 04 January 1897 to 13 March 1897, 'Exhibition of Works be the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', The Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 156
• 1930, Leighton House Museum, catalogue number 6
• 1961, 'Victorian Painting', Agnew's, catalogue number 112
• 1992, Japan