DrawingsBritish19th century

The Holy Family with an Angel

19th century

Artists

Frederic LeightonArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on board

Culture

British

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

41.3 × 18.2 cm (16 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Alexander Cecil Fenton, Bayonne, New Jersey, circa 1840s-1900. Sold [through unidentified estate sale, California]; to Jeanne Wahrenbrock, circa 1988-1998; by descent; to Clive Foss, her son, Cambridge, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Related Artworks

Drawings

Harlech Castle

John Varley, 19th century

Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Head of a Young Woman

Henry Fuseli, 18th-19th century

Black ink and gray wash on white paper

18th-19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Head of a Girl

John A. Huybers, 1886

Graphite on ivory paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Figures on the Beach

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 19th century

Watercolor over graphite on white paper

19th-20th centuryBritish

Drawings

Sandals and Wings, for "Perseus and the Sea Nymphs"; verso: Drapery Study, for St. Catherine window(?)

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1877

Graphite on heavy cream wove paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Banner; verso: Banner

Edward Burne-Jones, 19th century

Black chalk on cream modern laid paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Branch with Leaves

John Ruskin, 19th century

Graphite and watercolor on beige wove paper, darkened to brown

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Heysham and Cumberland Mountains, after Turner

William Ward II, c. 1875

Watercolor on off-white wove paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Philoctetes and Neoptolemus at Lemnos

William Blake, 1812

Watercolor, black ink and graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Landscape with Water Mill

Heneage Finch, Fourth Earl of Aylsford, 18th-19th century

Brown ink, brown and gray wash, over graphite on off-white antique laid paper

18th-19th centuryBritish

Drawings

View of Christ Church, Oxford

George Pyne, 1848

Watercolor, with accents of gum arabic varnish, over grahite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryBritish