A Byzantine Well-head

by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, center, left, in graphite: “18FL52”; inscribed, center right, in graphite: “VENEZIA”

Exhibition history

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist, Feb. 16–Apr. 21, 1996, cat. 2, pp. 102–03 (ill.). London, The Maas Gallery, 2007, cat. 77. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy, Sept. 16–Dec. 5, 2010, cat. 44, p. 92 (ill.).

Publications

Emilia Barrington, Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton (London, 1906), vol. I: p. 81, vol. II: pp. 42, 373. E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (editors), The Works of Ruskin (London, 1903–12), vol. XXXIII: pp. 318–19. Leonée and Richard Ormond, Lord Leighton (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 15, pl. 30.

Quick Overview

Artist: Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton / English, 1830-1896
Date: 1852
Medium: Graphite on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 26 × 20.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: prints and drawing
Place: England
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
Accession no.: 2021.319

Provenance

The artist, to 1896 [loaned to the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1883–1900]; estate of the artist [Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844–1921), executor]; by descent to Cockerell’s daughter, Frederica Lucy Cockerell (later Huddart); by descent to her son, E. W. Huddart, to at least 1996 [London 1996]. Maas Gallery, London, 2007. Private collection, to 2021. Sold by Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.