'The Daphnephoria'

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Painting details

Title: 'The Daphnephoria'
Date: 1874-76
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 226 x 518 cm
Location: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
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

Interpretation

As well as drawings, modelled studies in clay were made in preparation for the painting 'The Daphnephoria'. These models were exhibited in the 'Arts and Crafts Exhibition' at the New Gallery in Regent Street, London in 1893. A guide to Leighton House Museum of 1905 notes that "there actually exist not less than thirty-six drawings" for 'The Daphnephoria'. The background of the painting was taken from landscape studies made in a pine forest near Pisa. [see: 'The Times', Monday, 02 October 1893, p.5, issue 34071, column C; Stone, J. Harris, 'Leighton House: The Residence of the Late Lord Leighton P. R. A. and its Contents', The Central Publishing Co., London, 1905, p.16; Costa, Giovanni, 'Notes on Lord Leighton', The Cornhill Magazine, 1897, p.378]

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Provenance

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Commissioned by Stewart Hodgson; sold by Hodgson through Christie's (art dealers) on 03 June 1893 (lot 24); purchased by Tooth's Gallery, London (art dealers); collection of George McCulloch; sold by McCulloch through Christie's (art dealers) on 23 and 29-30 May 1913 (lot 69); purchased by Sampson; collection of Viscount Leverhulme; presented to the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight by Viscount Leverhulme

Bibliography

Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume II, p.195-197, illustrated opposite p.196
Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.35, illusrated on p.34, catalogue number 17
Newall, Christopher, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1990, p.58, 84, 85, 86-87, 88, 89, 90, 108, 116
Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, Lond

Exhibition history

1876, Royal Academy, catalogue number 241
1887, Manchester, catalogue number 512
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 81

Reproductions

Photogravure by Fine Art Society (76 x 33), 1897

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