'Antigone'

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Painting details

Title: 'Antigone'
Date: c.1882
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 58 x 51 cm
Location: Untraced
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from a photogravure)

Provenance

Collection of Charles Churchill; sold by Churchill through Christie's (art dealers) on 16 February 1917 (lot 90), purchased by Tooth's Gallery, London (art dealers); sold through Anderson Galleries, New York on 17-19 February 1926; untraced

Bibliography

• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.197, illustrated on p.197, catalogue number 87
• Newall, Christopher, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1990, p.101, 104, 105, illustrated on p.105
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.166
• Rhys, Ernest, 'Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work', George Bell and

Exhibition history

• 1882, Royal Academy, catalogue number 474
• 1897, Guildhall, catalogue number 83