LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

43.50 in. (110.50 cm.) (height) by 33.07 in. (84.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Royal Academy, 1895, lot 159;. Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1895, no.969;. Bradford, 1896;. Royal Academy, Works by the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton, Winter Exhibition, 1897, no.68;. Shepherd Gallery, New York, English Romantic Art 1840-1920 - Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolists, 1994, no.86

Literature:

The Magazine of Art, 1895, no.241;. The Art Journal, 1895, p.318;. Ernest Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton, 1898, p.39;. Alice Corkran, Frederic Leighton, 1904, p.198;. Mrs Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, 1906, p.392;. Leonee and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton, 1975, pp.124, 173, cat.no.391

Provenance:

Christie's, 'The Remaining Works and the Collection of Ancient & Modern Pictures and Water-colour Drawings of the Late Right Honourable Lord Leighton of Stretton', 11 July 1896, lot 116;. John Musker and thence by descent to Sir John Musker, his sale Sotheby's, Belgravia, 15 June 1982, lot 31;. J.S. Maas, London;. Private collection