The Sluggard

Bronze, signed 'Fred Leighton' back corner, titled on base Dimensions: 20 1/2 inches in height Provenance: By repute, The John Schaeffer Collection, Sydney, Australia Nevill Keating Tollemache Ltd, London The Collection of Roger S. Wieck and Jean-Francois Vilain: Sold to Benefit The Morgan Library & Museum Literature Joanna Barnes, Leigton and his Sculptural Legacy: British Sculpture 1875-1930 (London: Joanna Barnes Fine Arts, 1996), p. 50. Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, et al, Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, Harry N. Abrams, 1996). B. Read, Leighton as a Sculptor: Releasing Sculpture from Convention (London: Apollo, 1996), another cast. Michael Forrest, Art Bronzes (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publications Ltd, 1988), pp. 8, 22. Susan Beattie, The New Sculpture (London: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 149, 190-191. Richard and Leonee Ormond, Leighton (London: Yale Universtiy Press, 1975), another cast. Nikolaus Pevsner (foreword), British Sculpture 1850-1914 [A Loan Exhibition of Sculpture and Medals Sponsored by The Victorian Society - 30th September - 30th October, 1968] (London: Fine Arts Society, 1968), another version, p. 27. Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 (London: Henry Graves & Co. Ltd. and George Bell and Sons, 1905-06), p.32. Edmund Gosse, 'The New Sculpture, 1879-1894', The Art Journal (1894), p. 281.