A Byzantine Well-head

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Prints and Drawings

1852

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton
English, 1830-1896

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton
Title: A Byzantine Well-head
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1852
Medium: Graphite on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, center, left, in graphite: “18FL52”; inscribed, center right, in graphite: “VENEZIA”
Dimensions: 26 × 20.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2021.319
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Emilia Barrington, Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton (London, 1906), vol. I: p. 81, vol. II: pp. 42, 373.
E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (editors), The Works of Ruskin (London, 1903–12), vol. XXXIII: pp. 318–19.
Leonée and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 15, pl. 30.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist, Feb. 16–Apr. 21, 1996, cat. 2, pp. 102–03 (ill.).
London, The Maas Gallery, 2007, cat. 77.
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy, Sept. 16–Dec. 5, 2010, cat. 44, p. 92 (ill.).

The artist, to 1896 [loaned to the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1883–1900]; estate of the artist [Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844–1921), executor]; by descent to Cockerell’s daughter, Frederica Lucy Cockerell (later Huddart); by descent to her son, E. W. Huddart, to at least 1996 [London 1996]. Maas Gallery, London, 2007. Private collection, to 2021. Sold by Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

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