Study of a woman and child, for the painting 'The Daphnephoria' by Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA RWS 1830-1896

Study of a woman and child for the painting The Daphnephoria

Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA RWS 1830-1896

Black and white chalks on brown paper

15 1/4 x 9 inches, 38.7 x 22.8 cm

Provenance: F.A. White, Esq.

Drawings and Studies by the late Lord Leighton (Fine Art Society, London 1898), plate XIV

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Commentary by Hilary Morgan

The Daphnephoria (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight) (Ormond and Ormond, 1975) was commissioned by Stewart Hodgson in 1874 and was completed and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876. It represents a Greek procession in honour of Apollo. The present drawing is a study for the figures of a woman and child who sit on the wall behind the processional route at the right hand side of the composition.

The recto is marked with the studio stamp which the Fine Art Society put on all drawings which remained at Leighton House at the time of Leighton's death (Lugt, Frits, Marques de Collections, Supplement 1956, number 1741a).

References

Morgan, Hilary, and Peter Nahum. Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Their Century. London: Peter Nahum, 1989. Catalogue number 103.

Ormond Richard and Ormond, Leonee. Lord Leighton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. Catalogue number 237.

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