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STUDY of FLOWING HAIR for SUMMER SLUMBER. 1890s
FREDERIC
LEIGHTON, LORD LEIGHTON OF STRETTON, P.R.A.
1830-1896
Black
and white chalk on brown paper, 25.4 x 23.5 (10 x 9.25)
Provenance: unknown.
Literature:
Ormond, under cat. 382, Summer Slumber.
A
perfunctory outline head and shoulders, above, from which
flows abundant curling hair.
A
study for the head of the principal figure, a sleeping young
woman lying on the marble parapet of an oblong water cistern,
in Summer Slumber (115.6 x 158.75), exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1894, now in a private collection in India.
There are other studies at Leighton House including one for
the whole composition, c.1893-4, (21.5 x 26.5) in black and
white chalk on brown paper.
Summer
Slumber belongs to the group of late paintings of dreaming
young women which includes Flaming June, c.1895, Museo
de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico. For a full discussion of these
paintings see the entry by Christopher Newall in Frederic
Leighton, Royal Academy, 1996, p. 236.
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