Nausicaa (Leighton) Explained

Nausicaa
Artist:	Frederic Leighton
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Height Metric:	144.7
Width Metric:	66.9
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in

Nausicaa is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1878.

History

Nausicaa, a full-length girlish figure, in green and white draperies, standing in a doorway, was shown at the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1878 alongside three other pictures by Leighton: Winding the Skein, Serafina (another single figure), and A Study.^[1]

Description

Edgcumbe Staley describes the painting thus:

See also

• Academic art
• Nausicaa

References

1. Rhys 1900, pp. 37–38.

Sources

• Jones, Stephen, et al. (1996). Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896. Royal Academy of Arts, London: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pp. 77, 185, 186, 188.
• Rhys, Ernest (1900). Frederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 37–38, 126.
• Staley, Edgcumbe (1906). Lord Leighton of Stretton. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 113, 217, 220, 221.