“The Sluggard” by Frederic Lord Leighton (original) (raw)
The Sluggard
Frederic Lord Leighton, P. R. A. (1830-1896)
1890
Bronze, rich mid and dark brown patination
Height: 20 3/4 inches (52.5 cm.)
Signed "Fred Leighton," and inscribed "Founded by J. W. Singer & Sons, Frome Somerset Published by Arthur Leslie Collie 39B Old Bond Street, London, May 1st 1890."
The Royal Academy has the life-size plaster version of The Sluggard, and Tate Britain has the 1885 life-size bronze. Reduced-size versions are in the collections of Ashmolean Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts.
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