'The Dance'

'The Dance'

Painting details

Title: 'The Dance'
Date: 1881-83
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 83.8 x 523.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: (Detail illustrated) Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Interpretation

This painting was commissioned by the banker James Stewart Hodgson for the drawing room of his home at No. 1 South Audley Street, London.

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Provenance

'The Dance'
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Commissioned by James Stewart Hodgson for the drawing room at No.1 South Audley Street, London; collection of Lady Ellerman; presented to Leighton House Museum by Ellerman in 1976

Bibliography

  • Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, `Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.119, 124, 167 catalogue number 309
  • Robbins, Daniel and Suleman, Reena, 'Leighton House Museum: Holland Park Road, Kensington', The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, 2005, p.92 fig.133 (detail)
  • 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.44, 67, illustrated opposite p.44

Exhibition history

  • 1883, Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 158

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