'At the Fountain'

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Painting details

Title: 'At the Fountain'
Date: c.1892
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 127 x 94 cm
Location: Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from a photogravure)

Description

Three-quarter length study of a female figure in classical dress.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist for the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, U.S.A. in 1895; collection of Milwaukee Art Center, U.S.A.

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171, plate 171
• 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.50

Exhibition history

• 1892, Royal Academy, catalogue number 156

Reproductions

Photogravure by the Berlin Photographic Co. (52 x 38)