Study of a Drapery at Waist

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

c. 1887

Black and white chalk on buff paper (LFC)

350 x 200 mm (13 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches)

Signed lower left: Leighton studio stamp.

One of five drapery studies for Captive Andromache.

Provenance: Leighton studio collection until 1896; then Sir Edmund Gosse. Bought as Lot 2, Sotheby's, London, 15th July 2009. Captive Andromache was done between 1886−88 and is in Manchester City Art Galleries.

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Bibliography

Crowther, Paul. Awakening Beauty: The Crowther-Oblak Collection of Victorian Art. Exhibition catalogue. Ljubljana: National Gallery of Slovenia; Galway: Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, 2014. No. 76.

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