Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room
ca. 1886
Medium
Oil and gold on canvas
Dimensions
Central canvas 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm); side canvases each, 12 x 7 in. (30.5 x 17.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019
Accession Number
2021.10.2
Tags
About the Artist
Frederic, Lord Leighton · 1830–1896
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), was born on 3 December 1830 in Scarborough, England, to a prosperous medical family. His father, Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton, and mother, Augusta Susan, provided him with financial security throughout his life, while his grandfather, Sir James Boniface Leighton, had served as physician to Russian tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I. After early ed...