Leighton's mirror image
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On closer inspection it appears that the sketch is a mirrored version to the painting. I have never seen the painting in the flesh but I believe it to be the right way round here.
http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/leighton/LEF010.html
This sketch from a book of some of his drawings and studies (published in 1896 by The Fine Arts Society) one assumes is the right way round too.
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Here we have the two seated together in another painting equally well known but this way round in the sketch Daphnephoria and in the painting:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/thedaphnephoria.asp
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/thedaphnephoria.asp
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5 Comments:
what is it about thighs that makes them more alluring when they are partially obstructed from view by flowing flods of cloth?
But also: the painting is quite clear, the same couple of figures in the drawings are so mysterious!
Now Gawain, Ralph Brown has taken this one a stage further. Have a look at this and the others he has done in similar vein.
http://www.numberninethegallery.com/index_numbernine.php?image=ralphbrown_92
Ah, yes, but thighs somehow work better for me that buttocks!
Try this then:
http://www.numberninethegallery.com/index_numbernine.php?image=ralphbrown_90
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