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Edmund Leighton: The Shadow   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Edmund Leighton  (1852–1922)  wikidata:Q142420
 
Edmund Leighton
Alternative names
pseudonym: Edmund BlairLeighton; Edmund Blair Leighton; Edward Blair Leighton
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 21 September 1852 Edit this at Wikidata 1 September 1922 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London, England Bedford Park, London, England
Work location
London (1868–1922) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q142420
Title
The Shadow
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: The Shadow is based upon the Greek myth of Debutades's daughter, a Corinthian girl who drew the portrait of her beloved on the wall of her bed-chamber by tracing the outline of his shadow cast by the lamp-light on the night before he departed for war. Leighton changed the setting for the drama to the battlements of a medieval castle, below which the young crusader's ships are waiting.
Two other versions of The Shadow are known; one is in the Berman Museum in Anniston, Alabama (formerly the collection of Farley and Germaine Berman, purchased in these rooms, 3 May 1972, lot 140) and the other is in Cardiff City Hall. One of the versions was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1909.
Date circa 1909
date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 91 cm (35.8 in); width: 61 cm (24 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,91U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,61U174728
Object history M. Newman Ltd, London
Inscriptions

Initials bottom left:

E.B.L.
on the wall Signature and artist's address reverseon an old label
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 10 May 2012, lot 28
Other versions Cardiff version in artuk.org

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