'Cupid and Dove'

Painting details

Title: 'Cupid and Dove'
Date: 1880s
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 212 x 128 cm
Location: Untraced
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from 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

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Provenance

Apparently commissioned by Stewart Hodgson; said by Alice Corkran to be for a ball-room, but possibly connected with Leighton's decoration of 'The Dance' and 'Music' for Hodgson; untraced

Bibliography

  • Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.167
  • 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.66, illustrated opposite p.66

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