LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

79.92 in. (203.00 cm.) (height) by 35.83 in. (91.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1867, no. 489 London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1897, no. 56

Literature:

"The Royal Academy," The Light Blue: A Cambridge University Magazine, Cambridge, 1867, vol. II, p. 328 "The Royal Academy and Other Exhibitions," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July-December 1867, vol. 102, p. 79 Edmund Hodgson Yates, Celebrities at Home, London, 1878, p. 100 George H. Shepherd, A Short History of the British School of Painting, London, 1881, p. 116 Mrs. A. Lang, "Sir Frederic Leighton, Member of the Royal Academy," Art Annual, 1884-85, p. 12 Ernest Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton Bart., P.R.A., An Illustrated Chronicle, London, 1895, pp. xviii, 15, 68, illustrated 14c Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston, 1879, vol. II, p. 54 Mary Knight Potter, Love in Art, Boston, 1898, p. 152 William Cosmo Monkhouse, British Contemporary Artists, New York, 1899, p. 111 Ernest Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton: Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts, An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work, London, 1900, pp. 25, 110, 124, illustrated p. 24 George Charles Williamson, Frederic, Lord Leighton, London, 1902, p. 30 Alice Corkran, Frederic Leighton, London, 1904, p. 185 Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting, London, 1903, vol. III, p. 344 Edgcumbe Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A., New York, 1906, p. 73 A. Lys Baldry, Leighton, London, 1908 Mrs. Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, Boston, 1908, vol. II, pp. 125, 384, 386 "Sir Frederick Leighton," Teacher's Magazine, October 1913, p. 53 Jeremy Maas, Victorian Painters, New York, 1969, p. 181 Leonée Ormond and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton, New Haven and London, 1975, pp. 34, 72, 87-8, 119, 157-6, no. 124, illustrated pl. III Victorian High Renaissance, exh. cat., Minneapolis, 1978, p. 109 Christopher Wood, Olympian Dreamers, Victorian Classical Painters, 1860-1914, London, 1983, p. 50, illustrated p. 49, no. 5 Joseph A. Kestner, Mythology and Misogyny, The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical Subject Painting, Madison, Wisconsin, 1989, pp. 151-2, 161, 162 Christopher Newall, The Art of Lord Leighton, New York, 1990, pp. 57, 59, illustrated no. 33 Richard Jenkyns, Dignity and Decadence, Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992, p. 227, illustrated p. 228, no. 147 Russell Ash, Lord Leighton, London, 1995, n.p., illustrated Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Leonée Ormond, Richard Ormond and Benedict Read, Frederic, Lord Leighton, exh. cat., New York, 1996, pp. 27-8, illustrated p. 28 Dianne Sachko Macleod, Art and the Victorian Middle Class, Money and the Making of Cultural Identity, Cambridge, 1998, p. 293 Alison Smith,"Nature Transformed: Leighton, the Nude and the Model," in Frederic Leighton: Antiquity Renaissance Modernity, Tim Barringer and Elizabeth Prettejohn, eds., New Haven and London, 1999, p. 22, illustrated pl. V Christopher Wood, Victorian Painting, Boston, 1999, p. 188, illustrated p. 183 Alison Smith, ed., Exposed, The Victorian Nude, exh. cat., London, 2001, pp. 88, 102, illustrated fig. 20 Elizabeth Prettejohn, Art for Art's Sake, Aestheticism in Victorian Painting, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 139-41, illustrated p. 139, no. 69 Elizabeth Prettejohn, "The Classicism of Frederic Leighton," in Frederic Lord Leighton 1830-1896, Painter and Sculptor of the Victorian Age, Margot Th. Brandlhuber and Michael Buhrs, eds., exh. cat., Munich, 2009, p. 46-7, illustrated p. 47, no. 27.

Provenance:

Frederick Richards Leyland (and sold, his sale: Christie's, London, March 9, 1872, lot 71) Vokins (acquired at the above sale) Thomas Eustace Smith (Sir Alexander Henderson, later 1st Baron Faringdon (and sold, his sale: Sotheby's, London, June 13, 1934, lot 116) Sampson (acquired at the above sale) John Avery J.S. Maas & Co., London Sale: Sotheby's, Belgravia, March 9, 1976, lot 47, illustrated Private Collector (acquired at the above sale) Private Collection (acquired in 1978) Thence by descent