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29
STUDIES of a WOMAN carrying a ROUND PITCHER.
c.1886
FREDERIC
LEIGHTON, LORD LEIGHTON OF STRETTON, P.R.A.
1830-1896
Black
and white chalk on blue paper, 22 x 30.5 (8.5 x 12)
Provenance:
Barbizon House; Cecil French.
Three
studies of a full length draped young woman: left, facing
with pitcher on shoulder; centre, with back to viewer with
pitcher under left arm; right, with back to viewer stooping
to pick up pitcher with left hand.
Although
none of the poses appear in the finished painting this may
be a preliminary study for the water carriers in Captive
Andromache, c.1886-8 (197 x 407) now in Manchester City
Art Gallery. Leighton seems to have conceived the idea for
this subject in the early 1870s although he did not begin
serious work on the picture until c.1886. He recorded that
he produced at least 59 preparatory drawings. A study of females
carrying pitchers, c.1886-8 (22.9 x 30.1), also in black and
white chalk on blue paper, in the Leighton House collection,
which is related both stylistically and technically to 29,
is identified as a study for Captive Andromache.
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