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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 28, 2019 | Christie's | New York | European Art Part I | 207 | $****** - ****** | A Spring Festival (On the Road to the Temple of Ceres) | |||
Nov 4, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 67 | $****** - ****** | A Spring Festival (On The Road To The Temple Of Ceres) |
paintings
90.8 x 52.7 cm (35.75 x 20.75 in)
oil on canvas, in the artist's frame
signed and inscribed 'L Alma Tadema op. CCVIII' (on the edge of the path
with Pilgeram & Lefèvre, London, commissioned from the artist on 24 July 1879.
with Charles William Deschamps, Esq. (1848-1908), London.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired directly from the above, 22 July 1882.
Mary Jane Sexton Morgan (1823-1885), New York, acquired directly from the above, 1 March 1884.
Her estate sale; American Art Association, New York, 3-5 March 1886, lot 209, as Spring.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired at the above sale.
James Albert Garland (1870-1906), New York, acquired directly from the above, 6 March 1886.
His estate sale; Christie's, London, 30 April 1909, lot 57, as Springtime.
with William Walker Sampson, The British Galleries, London, acquired at the above sale.
Stephen Bergeman, New York.
His sale; Rains Galleries, New York, 30 November 1926, lot 26.
Anne Weightman Walker Penfield (1844-1932), Pennsylvania and New York.
Her sale; American Art Association, New York, 17-18 May 1934, lot 87, as A Spring Festival.
Guilford Hall, Palm Beach, FL.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, acquired directly from the above, by February 1966.
with William Rudd, Carriage House Gallery, Cincinnati, acquired directly from the above, 1969.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, acquired directly from the above, 1970.
The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York and London, acquired directly from the above, 1971.
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 2011, lot 67, as A Spring Festival (On the Road to the Temple of Ceres).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Berlin, Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Künste, 31 August-2 November 1879, no. 6, as An dem Tempel der Ceres.
London, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 176, as Spring festival.
Paris, Salon, 1881, no. 22, p. 190, illustrated, as En route pour le temple de Cérès; printemps.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, before 1909.
Hempsted, NY, Emily Lowe Gallery at Hofstra University, Victorian Art, 29 October-17 December 1972, no. 58, as Spring Festival.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited, Victorian paintings from the Forbes magazine Collection, 11 March-27 April 1975, also Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 10 May-14 September 1975; Atlanta, The High Museum, 27 September-26 October 1975; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, 6 December 1975-1 February 1976; Louisville, The Allen House, 14-28 February 1976, pp. 20-21, 159, no. 1, illustrated, as Spring Festival.
Auburn, AL, Auburn University, Bicentennial Exhibition of Selected Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Auburn Permanent Collection, 11-30 April 1976, p. 15, no. 23, illustrated, as Spring Festival.
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Times, 24 January-24 February 24, 1985; also Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu City Museum of Art, 5-24 March 1985; Nagoya, The Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 26 March-21 April 1985; Daimaru Museum of Art, Daimaru 1-20 May 1985; and Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, 25 May-23 June 1985, pp. 96-97, no. 44, illustrated, as Spring Festival.
Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Empires Restored, Elysium Revisited: The Art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 21 September 1991-5 January 1992, also Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, 5 February-31 March 1992; Cincinnati, Taft Museum, 23 April-11 June 1992; and Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 12 July-6 September 1992, pp. 72-73, no. 21, illustrated, as On the Road to the Temple of Ceres: A Spring Festival.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, In Perfect Harmony, Picture and Frame, 1850-1920, 31 March-25 June 1995, also Viena, Kunstforum Wien, 24 August-19 November 1995, pp. 80-81, no. 63, illustrated, as On the Road to the Temple of Ceres: A Spring Festival.
L. Alma-Tadema, correspondence to Stephens, 27 January 1876, Bodleian Library, Oxford, nos. 27-8.
'Notes on Art and Archaeology,' The Academy, 26 July 1879, p. 74, as The Invocation of Ceres.
L. Alma-Tadema, correspondence to Henschel, 2 August 1879, Heslop Library, Birmingham, no. I:2.
C. Vosmaer, 'Twee schilderijen van L. Alma Tadema,' de Nederlandsche Spectator, The Hague, 22 November 1879, p. 374, as Naar den tempel van Ceres.
'The Royal Academy Exhibition,' The Art Journal, vol. XIX, London, 1880, p. 187, as Spring Festival.
'Pictures of the Year - II,' The Magazine of Art, London, vol. 3, 1880, p. 316, illustrated, as Spring Festival.
M. H. Bell, Royal Academy Yearbook, London, 1880, p. 10, illustrated.
H. G. Blackburn, Academy Notes, London, May 1800, p. 22, illustrated, as Spring Festival.
'Royal Academy Exhibition,' Illustrated London News, no. 2135, vol. LXXVI, London, 1 May 1880, p. 435, as A Spring Festival.
L. Baschet, ed., L'exposition des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1881, Paris, 1881, pp. 158-161, illustrated, as En route pour le temple de Cérès (printemps).
F. G. Stephens, 'Mr. Lawrence Alma Tadema, R.A.,' Artists at Home, London, 1884, p. 32, as Spring Festival.
'Art Notes,' Illustrated London News, no. 2410, vol. LXXXVI, London, 27 June 1885, p. 648, as Spring Festival.
C. Vosmaer, Alma-Tadema Catalogue Raisonné, unpublished, Leiden, circa 1885, no. 243.
W. Meynell, The Modern School of Art, vol. II, London and Paris, 1887, p. 15, illustrated, as Spring Festival.
R. Dircks, 'The Later Work of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S.,' The Art Journal, The Christmas Number, London, 25 December 1910, p. 30, no. CCCVIII, as To the Temple of Ceres.
L. Alma-Tadema, correspondence to Sir Isidore Spielman, 6 December 1910, V& A Library, London.
M. Findlay, 'Forbes Saves the Queen,' Arts Magazine, no. 47, New York, February 1973, pp. 27-28, illustrated, as A Spring Festival.
C. Fox, 'The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited,' Burlington Magazine, vol. 117, no. 866, London, May 1975, p. 324, as Spring Festival.
V. G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, London, 1977, p. 138, no. CCVIII, as On the Road to the Temple of Ceres, A Spring Festival.
L. Lippincott, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Spring, Malibu, 1990, p. 19, fig. 9, illustrated, as Spring.
V. G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, pp. 208-209, 398, no. 254, illustrated.
E. Becker, ed., Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, exh. cat., Amsterdam and Liverpool, 1995, pp. 83, 98.
R. J. Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 2001, pp. 94-95, no. 86, illustrated.
C. Forbes, 'Victorians in Togas-Some Musings,' Fine Art Connoisseur, vol. 4, no. 3, New York, May/June 2007, p. 36, illustrated.
E. Prettejohn et al., Lawrence Alma-Tadema, At Home in Antiquity, exh. cat., London, 2016, p. 73. no. 80, illustrated.
signed and inscribed 'L Alma Tadema op. CCVIII' (on the edge of the path, lower left)
oil on canvas, in the artist's frame
The painting: 35 ¾ x 20 ¾ in. (90.8 x 52.7 cm.)
Overall: 49 ¾ x 31 ¾ in. (126. 80.6 cm.)
Painted in 1879.