Details
- Artist Name: William Etty (English, 1787-1849)
- Title: Study for "Leda and the Swan"
- Date: c.1840
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 16-3/4 x 21 in. (42.5 x 53.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation, from the Estate of Jennifer Jones Simon
- Accession Number: M.2010.1.5.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Norton.
Ralph Fletcher, Gloucester (sale, London, Christie’s, 9 June 1838, lot 29, for 10 gns., to);
Artaria.
G. T. Andrews (sale, London, Christie’s, 31 May 1851, lot 82, for 7,2 gns. to);
Rogier.
H. A. J. Munro of Novar.
Percy Moore Turner, sold 1926 to;
The Earl of Sandwich, Hinchingbrooke;
Amiya, Countess of Sandwich (sale, London, Christie’s, 20 November 1964, lot 54, for 3500 gns., to);
[Thos. Agnew & Sons, London];
Norton Simon, to;
Jennifer Jones Simon Art Trust, to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
British Art
- Manchester, City Art Gallery, 1934-04-05 to 1934-05-26
British Art
- Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), 1934 to
Paintings by William Etty
- London, Adams Gallery, 1936-05-20 to 1936-06-20
Centenary Memorial Exhibition of John Constable R.A.
- Wildenstein & Co. (London, England), 1937-04-21 to 1937-05-29
Etty Centenary
- York, City Art Gallery, 1949-11-13 to 1949-12-31
An Exhibition of Paintings by William Etty
- London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1955 to
- Gaunt, William and F. Gordon Roe, Etty and the Nude, 1943, p. 68
- Farr, Dennis, William Etty, 1958, pp. 62, 148
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 248 p. 275
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