Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room

ca. 1886

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Oil and gold on canvas
Dimensions: Central canvas 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm); side canvases each, 12 x 7 in. (30.5 x 17.8 cm)
Collection no.: 2021.10.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Frederic Leighton. Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room — Frederic Leighton. ca. 1886.

Medium: Oil and gold on canvas. Dimensions: Central canvas 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm); side canvases each, 12 x 7 in. (30.5 x 17.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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