1943.723: Study for "Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna Carried in Procession"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.723

People

Frederic Leighton, British (Scarborough England 1830 - 1896 London England)

Title

Study for "Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna Carried in Procession"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1855

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297934

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and white gouache on beige laid paper

Dimensions

18.2 x 43 cm (7 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Eduard J. von Steinle, Frankfurt am Main (L. 2312a). John Postle Heseltine(?), sale [Sotheby's, London, May 27-29, 1935, lot 431]. Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop, Oct. 23, 1935; bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.723

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sir Oliver Millar, The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA and New York, NY, 1992), under no. 451, fig. 56

Exhibition History

• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: The Past and the Present: British Art of the 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/03/2010 - 11/20/2010

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