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28 SKETCH for AT THE FOUNTAIN.
c. 1892

FREDERIC LEIGHTON, LORD LEIGHTON OF STRETTON, P.R.A.
1830-1896

An auburn-haired woman with her right hand on her hip, three-quarter length in a pinkish draped costume, facing left, rests her left hand on the rim of a stone well. There are lemons and an amphora to her left.

 


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28 SKETCH for AT THE FOUNTAIN.
c. 1892

FREDERIC LEIGHTON, LORD LEIGHTON OF STRETTON, P.R.A.
1830-1896

Oil on canvas, 17.8 x 13.3 (7 x 5.25)

Provenance: unknown.

Literature: Ormond, under cat. 371.

An auburn-haired woman with her right hand on her hip, three-quarter length in a pinkish draped costume, facing left, rests her left hand on the rim of a stone well. There are lemons and an amphora to her left.

The Ormonds identify this picture, previously known as Sketch for a Composition, as a colour study for At the Fountain, c.1892 (127 x 94) in the Milwaukee Art Center, U.S.A.

 

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