Lot Essay
For a note on the related work, please see lot 59.
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A Dancing Girl with Cymbals in a White Robe
Details
FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1830-1896)
A Dancing Girl with Cymbals in a White Robe
oil on canvas with gold leaf background, arched top
86 3/4 in. x 46 3/4 in. (220.4 cm. x 118.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1869.
A Dancing Girl with Cymbals in a White Robe
oil on canvas with gold leaf background, arched top
86 3/4 in. x 46 3/4 in. (220.4 cm. x 118.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1869.
Provenance
The Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham (1835-1911) and Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Wyndham (1845-1920), London, commissioned from the artist.
Grace Cecile Lowther (1854-1941), Countess of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, Cumbria.
John George Hope (1912-1987) and Mary Pilar Elizabeth Gordon Hope (1914-1989), London, until circa 1972.
J. B. Godfrey.
His sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 9 July 1974, lot 47, as Female Cymbal Player, Dancing.
with Wengraff, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 June 1990, as part of lot 83, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 June 1996, lot 569.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Grace Cecile Lowther (1854-1941), Countess of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, Cumbria.
John George Hope (1912-1987) and Mary Pilar Elizabeth Gordon Hope (1914-1989), London, until circa 1972.
J. B. Godfrey.
His sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 9 July 1974, lot 47, as Female Cymbal Player, Dancing.
with Wengraff, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 June 1990, as part of lot 83, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 June 1996, lot 569.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
M. D. Conway, Travels in South Kensington, London, 1882, p. 164.
L. and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton, London, 1975, p. 174, no. 420, as Female Cymbal Player.
C. Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration, London, 1989, pp. 18, 23, pl. 18, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square.
C. Dakers, Clouds, The Biography of a Country House, New Haven and London, 1993, p. 46, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square, opposite p. 47, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
R. Ormond, 'Leighton and Mural Painting,' Apollo, London, February 1996, p. 55.
C. Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society, New Haven and London, 1999, p. 126, as The Cymbalists.
C. Willsdon, Mural painting in Britain 1840-1940: image and meaning, New York, 2000, p. 320, pl. 181, illustrated.
B. Bryant, 'The Grosvenor Gallery, Patronage and the Aesthetic Portrait,' The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900, exh. cat., London, 2011, pp. 160, 163, fig. 143, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
C. Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power, New York, 2018, n.p., as The Cymbalists.
L. and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton, London, 1975, p. 174, no. 420, as Female Cymbal Player.
C. Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration, London, 1989, pp. 18, 23, pl. 18, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square.
C. Dakers, Clouds, The Biography of a Country House, New Haven and London, 1993, p. 46, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square, opposite p. 47, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
R. Ormond, 'Leighton and Mural Painting,' Apollo, London, February 1996, p. 55.
C. Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society, New Haven and London, 1999, p. 126, as The Cymbalists.
C. Willsdon, Mural painting in Britain 1840-1940: image and meaning, New York, 2000, p. 320, pl. 181, illustrated.
B. Bryant, 'The Grosvenor Gallery, Patronage and the Aesthetic Portrait,' The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900, exh. cat., London, 2011, pp. 160, 163, fig. 143, illustrated in the drawing of 44 Belgrave Square, as The Dance of the Cymbalists.
C. Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power, New York, 2018, n.p., as The Cymbalists.
Exhibited
San Francisco, 2820 Scott Street, San Francisco Decorators Showcase, May 2008.
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