'Lachrymae'

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Painting details

Title: 'Lachrymae'
Date: c.1895
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 158 x 63 cm
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from a photogavure)

Provenance

Purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York through the Wolfe Fund in 1896

Bibliography

• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.194, catalogue number 120
• Newall, Christopher, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1990, p.135, illustrated on 136
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.129, 173, plate 185
• 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, 190

Exhibition history

• 1895, Royal Academy, catalogue number 182
• 1971, 'From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and his World', Wildenstein, New York, catalogue number 92

Reproductions

Photogravure by A. Tooth and Sons (67 x 27), 1896