Chaucer at the Court of Edward III - Study for Squire's Legs1851 Accession number: 1906P786 Black chalk heightened with white on brown paper. Width: 232 mm Height: 230 mm InformationThis is a study for the legs of the figure at the bottom left of the painting 'Chaucer at the Court of Edward III' (1851, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney). In his 1865 solo exhibition catalogue the artist identified him as 'a youthful squire of the kind described by Chaucer as never sleeping at nights, 'more doth the nightingale,' so much he is always in love ('The Exhibition of Work and other Paintings,' 1865, p. 4). Like the drapery study for the Black Prince, executed the same year (1906P785), this drawing is in black chalk and heightened with white, showing Brown's preoccupation with recreating the effect of bright sunlight in the painting.LM
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