Needless Alarms by Frederic Leighton at Leighton House
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Needless Alarms by Frederic Leighton at Leighton House
Image: © Free Man Taken: 6 Mar 2023
As seen at Leighton House Museum: https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/leighton-house "Leighton produced three sculptures for exhibition, of which this was the last. The subject is a young girl surprised by a toad, who sits alongside her feet. Leighton has shown the girl in the action of recoiling: her nude body gracefully bending away from the creature in an elegant arch as she peers down at her feet. The model for the figure was Lena Dene, who was the younger sister of actress, Dorothy Dene who modelled for Leighton on many occasions." Date: modelled 1886, cast 19th century
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Image Location
Latitude
51.498507
Longitude
-0.203209