Head of Dorothy Dene

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

1881

Pencil

22.8 x 17.4 cm

Collection: Leighton House Museum.

Over and above Leighton's "proficiency in anatomy ... the beautiful drawings of his favourite model, Portrait of Dorothy Dene (c.1880) and Head of Dorothy Dene (1881) have an aesthetic warmth which cannot fail to strike the visitor." — Antoine Capet

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