'After Vespers'

Painting details

Title: 'After Vespers'
Date: c.1872
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1003 x 1283 cm
Location: Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Picture credit: Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Description

Three-quarter length, standing female figure, facing the viewer. The right arm rests at the side of the body and the right hand holds a red rosary. The left hand holds up the left side of her dress. The figure is in green contemporary dress. There are small white flowers in her hair and a red ribbon tied around her neck. The background shows the guilded interior of a highly decorative church, including a domed niche.

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London (auctioneers) on 26 March 1892 (lot 93); purchased by Blair; sold through Christie's, London 10 March 1916 (lot 92); puchased by Mitchell; collection of G R MacDougall; sold through Christie's, London 24 May 1918 (lot 8); sold through Christie's 17 June 1927 (lot 111); purchased by Sampson; sold through Sotheby's c1960

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.161, catalogue number 200

Exhibition history

• 1872, Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 171
• 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 4
• 09 October 1999 to 02 January 2000, 'Nineteenth-Century British Art', Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey