'Perseus and Andromeda'

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Painting details

Title: 'Perseus and Andromeda'
Date: c.1891
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 235 x 129 cm
Location: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from a photogravure)

Interpretation

A reporter for the 'Pall Mall Budget' visited Leighton at his home in Holland Park Road, Kensington, in 1890 and noticed a selection of drawings for the painting 'Perseus and Andromeda' (c.1891, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), lying on a table in the artist's studio. [Anon., 'The "Pall Mall" Picture Gallery. No.25 - Sir Frederick Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.', 'Pall Mall Budget', 03 July 1890]

Provenance

Artist's sale (lot 117); Tooth's Gallery, London (art dealers); sold through Grindley and Palmer, Liverpool on 21 August 1909; purchased by Sir William Hartley; presented to the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool by by Hartley

Bibliography

• Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume II, p.198
• Jones, Stephen, et al., 'Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, p.219-220, illustrated on p.218, catalogue number 111
• Newall, Christopher, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1990, p.122, 123, 133, illustrated on p.123
• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.120, 127, 170-17

Exhibition history

• 1891, Royal Academy, catalogue number 147
• 1891, Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, catalogue number 799
• 1894, Oldham
• 1894, Chicago
• 1895, Venice
• 1896, Brussels
• 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 32
• 1904, St. Louis
• 1912, Toronto
• 1912, Sunderland
• 1930, Harrogate

Reproductions

Photogravure by the Berlin Photographic Co. (188 x 104 cm); Photograph by H. Dixon and Son