Pencil Study for the Heads of Venus and Her Two Maids for 'The Mirror of Venus' (1875)

drawing height: 69.5 cm
drawing width: 39 cm
mount height: 69.5 cm
mount width: 39 cm
frame height: 72.2 cm
frame width: 41.7 cm

Fine and Detailed Pencil Study for the Heads of Venus and Her Two Maids for 'The Mirror of Venus' (1875); drawn probably on the same sheet; displayed within the same mount but as two different compositions; the head of Venus shown on its own at the top of the drawing in an identical pose to the finished painting; in the bottom of the drawing in the same scale the heads of the two maids (second from the right of the composition depicted at the top and second from the left of the composition depicted right below and slightly overlapping); again both in poses identical to the finished picture; head studies from the female figure for the mythological subject