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Artist |
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Lord Frederick Leighton |
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Title |
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Venus disrobing for the bath
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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79.9 x 35.8 in. / 203 x 91 cm. |
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Description |
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oil on canvas |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Thursday, October 22, 2009
[Lot 36]
19th Century European Art including Important British Paintings
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Frederick Richards Leyland (and sold, his sale: Christie's, London, March 9, 1872, lot 71)
Vokins (acquired at the above sale)
Thomas Eustace Smith (Sir Alexander Henderson, later 1st Baron Faringdon (and sold, his sale: Sotheby's, London, June 13, 1934, lot 116)
Sampson (acquired at the above sale)
John Avery
J.S. Maas & Co., London
Sale: Sotheby's, Belgravia, March 9, 1976, lot 47, illustrated
Private Collector (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection (acquired in 1978)
Thence by descent
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Exhibition |
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London, Royal Academy, 1867, no. 489
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1897, no. 56
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Literature |
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"The Royal Academy," The Light Blue: A Cambridge University Magazine, Cambridge, 1867, vol. II, p. 328
"The Royal Academy and Other Exhibitions," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July-December 1867, vol. 102, p. 79
Edmund Hodgson Yates, Celebrities at Home, London, 1878, p. 100
George H. Shepherd, A Short History of the British School of Painting, London, 1881, p. 116
Mrs. A. Lang, "Sir Frederic Leighton, Member of the Royal Academy," Art Annual, 1884-85, p. 12
Ernest Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton Bart., P.R.A., An Illustrated Chronicle, London, 1895, pp. xviii, 15, 68, illustrated 14c
Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston, 1879, vol. II, p. 54
Mary Knight Potter, Love in Art, Boston, 1898, p. 152
William Cosmo Monkhouse, British Contemporary Artists, New York, 1899, p. 111
Ernest Rhys, Frederic Lord Leighton: Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts, An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work, London, 1900, pp. 25, 110, 124, illustrated p. 24
George Charles Williamson, Frederic, Lord Leighton, London, 1902, p. 30
Alice Corkran, Frederic Leighton, London, 1904, p. 185
Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting, London, 1903, vol. III, p. 344
Edgcumbe Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A., New York, 1906, p. 73
A. Lys Baldry, Leighton, London, 1908
Mrs. Russell Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, Boston, 1908, vol. II, pp. 125, 384, 386
"Sir Frederick Leighton," Teacher's Magazine, October 1913, p. 53
Jeremy Maas, Victorian Painters, New York, 1969, p. 181
Leonée Ormond and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton, New Haven and London, 1975, pp. 34, 72, 87-8, 119, 157-6, no. 124, illustrated pl. III
Victorian High Renaissance, exh. cat., Minneapolis, 1978, p. 109
Christopher Wood, Olympian Dreamers, Victorian Classical Painters, 1860-1914, London, 1983, p. 50, illustrated p. 49, no. 5
Joseph A. Kestner, Mythology and Misogyny, The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical Subject Painting, Madison, Wisconsin, 1989, pp. 151-2, 161, 162
Christopher Newall, The Art of Lord Leighton, New York, 1990, pp. 57, 59, illustrated no. 33
Richard Jenkyns, Dign
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