Study in Draperies
Medium
Black chalk highlighted with white chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 x 14 1/2 in. (22.9 x 36.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1907
Accession Number
07.262.7
About the Artist
Frederic, Lord Leighton|Romain Cazes · 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...