Live Auction 11148Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Lot 25

Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)

Study of three standing draped female figures for 'Music'

Closed16 June 2015

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Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Study of three standing draped female figures for 'Music'
black and white chalk on brown paper
15 ¼ x 11 in. (38.7 x 28 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1998, lot 285.
with Peter Nahum, London, where purchased by the present owners.

Specialist note

The present drawing is a study for the group of singing girls in the centre of the left-hand half of the Leighton’s painted frieze Music (Leighton House, fig. 1), commissioned by Steward Hodgson as a pendant to The Dance (also in the collection of Leighton House) for the drawing room of his London house, 1 South Audley Street. The Dance was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883 and Music in 1885.