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Clytie

Leighton, Frederick, baron (painter)

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Title/s

Clytie

Maker/s

Leighton, Frederick, baron (painter)

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

British

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 84.4 cm
width: 137.5 cm

Date

1890 to 1892

Provenance

bequeathed: Marlay, Charles Brinsley 1912 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

Leighton sale, Christie's, 11 July 1896 (114); C.B. Marlay; on loan to Leighton House, London, since before 1912

Inscriptions/Marks

1. label
   Position: verso, frame
   Method: MS
   Content: Study for "Clytie" on loan from the Fitzwilliam
   Description: indistinct
   
2. label
   Position: verso, frame
   Method: printed, with MS addition
   Content: West Ham Free Picture Exhibition, Easter 1897. Third Annual Exhibition (with MSaddition) "80" as lent by C. Brinsley Marlay
   
3. label
   Position: verso, frame
   Method: printed
   Content: R.A. Winter Exhibitio, 1897 (rest illegible)
   

Documentation

1. Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 153-154]
2. Newall, Christopher (1990) The Art of Lord Leighton, Oxford [page: 128]
   [comments: Reproduced (colour) pl.90]

Accession Number

M.84 (Lord Leighton) (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 3570; Input Date: 2000-04-03 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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