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27
STUDY of a DRAPED FEMALE FIGURE for THE DANCE.
Early 1880's
FREDERIC
LEIGHTON, LORD LEIGHTON OF STRETTON, P.R.A.
1830-1896
Black
and white chalk on brown paper, 27.3 x 21.6 (10.75 x 8.5)
Provenance:
possibly Mrs. Douglas Freshfield, sale Christie's 2 November
1934 (26 as Spirit of the Summits); Barbizon House;
Cecil French.
Literature:
Ormond, under cat. 292, Dance: A Frieze.
A
statuesque standing, headless, draped female figure facing
towards the left with both arms raised.
A
study for the standing woman at the extreme left of The
Dance, (83.8 x 523), exhibited at the Royal Academy in
1883 (158), which, with a companion picture of Music,
was commissioned by James Stewart Hodgson for a frieze for
the drawing room of his house, 1 South Audley Street. Both
paintings are now in Leighton House Museum.
An
inscription on the backing board, in pencil, reads "Mrs.
Freshfield/ No.13". Augusta Freshfield, whose husband
owned several paintings and sketches by Leighton, took part
in musical soirees given by Leighton's great friend Adelaide
Sartoris at her house in Park Place, St. James's.
A
Barbizon House label, verso, bears a pencil inscription reading
"The Spirit of the Summit"/ Study by Lord Leighton
P.R.A. Either this is mistaken or the backboard is not original
to the drawing in which case the above provenance is incorrect.
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