'The Garden of the Hesperides'

Painting details

Title: 'The Garden of the Hesperides'
Date: c.1892
Media: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 168.9 (dia x 168.9 (diameter) cm
Location: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from a photogravure)

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Description

Three full-length seated female figures.

Provenance

Collection of George McCulloch (silver miner and art collector, 1848-1907); sold through Christie's, London 23-30 May 1913 (lot 70); purchased by Gooden and Fox (art dealers); purchased by William Hesketh Leverhulme, (Viscount Leverhulme, industrialist and philanthropist, 1851-1925); Lady Lever Art Gallery.

Bibliography

  • Jones, Stephen et al., 'Frederic Leighton', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1996, catalogue number 118
  • Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.171, catalogue number 364, colour plate IX

Exhibition history

  • 1892, Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 204
  • 1892, Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, catalogue number 994
  • 1895, Guildhall, catalogue number 24
  • 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 39
  • 1909, Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition, London, catalogue number 41
  • 1968, Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition, London, catalogue numb

Reproductions

Photogravure by A. Tooth and Sons (24 diam., round), 1893

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