'The Return of Persephone'

'The Return of Persephone'

Painting details

Title: 'The Return of Persephone'
Date: c.1891
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 203.2 x 152.4 cm
Location: Leeds City Art Gallery
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from a photogravure)

Interpretation

A guide to Leighton House Museum of 1905 notes that a total of nineteen drawings were known to exist for the painting 'The Return of Persephone'. [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]

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Provenance

'The Return of Persephone'
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Purchased by Sir James Kitson (1st Baron Airedale, 22 September 1835-19 March 1911); presented by Kitson to the Leeds City Art Gallery

Bibliography

  • Jones, Stephen et al., 'Frederic Leighton', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, catalogue number 109
  • Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171, catalogue number 360, plate 168

Exhibition history

  • 1891, Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 232
  • 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 63
  • 1911, Rome

Reproductions

Photogravure by Fine Art Society (53 x 41), 1897; Photograph by H. Dixon and Son

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