LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition , 1877, no. 31. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the late Lord Leighton of Stretton , Winter 1897, no. 42

Literature:

Times , 1 May 1877, p. 10. E. Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart., PRA , London, 1895, p. 69. E. Rhys, Frederic, Lord Leighton , London, 1898, pp. 28-9, 87. E. Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, PRA , London, 1906, p. 239. Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton , London, 1906, vol. 2, p. 387. L. and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton , New Haven and London, 1975, pp. 121, 163, no. 242

Provenance:

Mrs Henry Evans Gordon. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 January 1970, lot 8. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 November 1990, lot 288