LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

31.50 in. (80.00 cm.) (height) by 49.02 in. (124.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1864, no. 293. London, 1867. London, County Borough of West Ham, Second Annual Loan Picture Exhibition , Easter 1896. London Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition , 1897, no. 40, lent by Lord Davey. Liverpool, 1915, no. 1215. Manchester, City Art Gallery; Minneapolis, Institute of Arts; and Brooklyn Museum, The Victorian High Renaissance , September 1978 - April 1979, no. 44, lent by George Christie. Munich, Neue Pinakothek; and Madrid, Prado, Victorian Painting , British Council Exhibition, February - June 1993. London, Royal Academy, Frederic, Lord Leighton , February - April 1996, no. 31, lent by Sir George and Lady Christie

Literature:

‘The Royal Academy Exhibition’, Art Journal , 1864, p. 158. ‘The Royal Academy’, Athenaeum , no. 1905, 30 April 1864, p. 616. ‘The Royal Academy of 1864’. Saturday Review , 17, 14 May 1864, p. 593. ‘Exhibition of the Royal Academy’, Times , 30 April 1864. p. 14. J. Beavington Atkinson, ‘English Painters of the Present Day’, XVI, Portfolio , 1870, pp. 161-6. E.F.S. Pattison, Sir Frederic Leighton , London, 1882, p. 14. The Magazine of Art , vol. 4, 1881, p. 52. Art Journal , vol. 57, 1895, illustrated p. 375. E. Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton , London, 1895, pp. 12-13, 67; second, revised edition, 1898, pp. 17-18, 85. A. Corkran, Frederic Leighton , London, 1904, p. 57, 193, 201. Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton , London, 1906, II, pp. 9, 112, 114, 119, 123-4. E. Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A, London, 1906, pp. 66-67, 234. R. and L. Ormond, Lord Leighton . Yale, 1975, pp. 61, 119, 155, no. 103, pl. 88, color sketch, p. 155, no. 104. R. Ormond, ‘Leighton’s Frescoes in the Victoria and Albert Museum’, Brochure 6, London, 1975, p. 35. G. Hedberg, A. Staley, L. Ormond, R. Ormond, Richard Dorment, Victorian High Renaissance , London, 1978, pp. 105-6 (exhibition catalogue). C. Newall, The Art of Lord Leighton , London, 1990, pp. 48-50. R. Ormond, L. Ormond, C. Newall, S. Jones and B. Read, Frederic, Lord Leighton : Eminent Victorian Artist , Harry N. Abrams with the Royal Academy of Arts, 1996, pp. 15, 136-7 (exhibition catalogue). T. Barringer and E. Prettejohn (eds.), Frederic Leighton : Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, p. 232. C. Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society , London, 1999, p. 133, fig. 30. E. Prettejohn, Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting , New Haven, 2007, p. 79

Provenance:

Ernest Leopold and Elizabeth Benson. Mrs Elizabeth Benzon (†); Christie's, London, 1 May 1880, lot 55 (1100 gns to Vokins). The Rt Hon. Lord Revelstoke; Christie's, London, 3 June 1893, lot 38 (370 gns to Agnew). with Agnew's, London. The Rt Hon. Lord Davey (†); Christie's, London, 20 April 1907, lot 77 (250 gns to Wallis). Henry Mungall (†); Christie's, London, 13 February 1914, lot 20 (220 gns to Paris). Anonymous sale [J.A. Orillac]; Christie's, London, 15 December 1916, lot 140 (260 gns to Huggins). Lady Rosamund Christie, and by descent to the present owner