Study for a cloaked figure
Design
1835-8 (drawn)
1835-8 (drawn)
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| Place of origin |
Pencil study of a seated and cloaked figure, facing left, and writing left-handed upon a tablet held in the right hand. There is another smaller figure faintly indicated to the left. The paper is described in the catalogue as being 'peculiar' and the manner of drawing is attributed to an early date in Alfred Stevens' style.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Study for a cloaked figure (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil drawing |
| Brief description | Pencil study by Alfred Stevens of a seated and cloaked figure, writing left-handed upon a tablet held in the right hand. Ca. 1835-8. |
| Physical description | Pencil study of a seated and cloaked figure, facing left, and writing left-handed upon a tablet held in the right hand. There is another smaller figure faintly indicated to the left. The paper is described in the catalogue as being 'peculiar' and the manner of drawing is attributed to an early date in Alfred Stevens' style. |
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| Credit line | Gifted from the Tate Gallery, date of receipt 11th October 1974. Gift refers to objects E.21 to 380-1975. |
| Object history | It was probably after the floods of 1928 that this drawing had the original National Gallery number of N.G. No. 2190, obviously by error, and questioned at the time. The drawing is supposed to be very much earlier in date than can be ascribed to any studies for the Parmigiano painting. It is probably from one of the Italian portfolios. Purchased out of the Lewis Fund, 1907, from W. W. Bagshawe, whose father acquired it in 1877 at the sale of the death of Stevens. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Romney Towndrow, Kenneth. The Works of Alfred Stevens at the Tate Gallery. London: Published by the Tate Gallery Trustees, 1950. |
| Other number | N.G. No. 5808 - National Gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.357-1975 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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