Chalk Study of the Heads of Orpheus and Eurydice for 'Orpheus and Eurydice'

drawing height: 28.2 cm
drawing width: 43.3 cm
mount height: 40.9 cm
mount width: 30.7 cm

Chalk Study of the Heads of Orpheus and Eurydice for 'Orpheus and Eurydice' drawn on verso of the second page of a blue paper folio: on the left study of head and proper right extended arm of Orpheus and on the right the figure of Eurydice lightly indicated; study possibly relates to the first horizontal study of the subject of 1867-68; group composition of the heads of two figures, one male and one female for the mythological subject