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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 18, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Art including The Orientalist Sale | 103 | $****** - ****** | In The Temple | |||
Oct 24, 1996 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Paintings & Sculpture | 107 | $****** - ****** | In the Temple: Opus LXXXIX |
paintings
89.5 x 52.1 cm (35.24 x 20.51 in)
oil on panel
signed L Alma Tadema and dated 71 (lower right)
Messrs. Ernest Gambart (commissioned from the artist in 1871 and sold:
Christie's, London, February 9, 1874, lot 141). Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London. Lord Angus Holden (by 1882 and sold:
Christie's, London, July 18, 1913, lot 22). Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London. Messrs. M. Newman, London (and sold:
Christie's, London, December 2, 1955, lot 130). Mr. Waters (acquired at the above sale and sold:
Sotheby's, London, May 13, 1959, lot 81). Mr. Fielding (acquired at the above sale). H.S. Waldron (and sold:
Christie's, London, October 9, 1959, lot 60). Leger Galleries, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale). James Coats Gallery, New York, March 1961. Allen Funt, New York (and sold:
Sotheby's Belgravia, London, November 6, 1973, lot 11, illustrated). The Fine Art Society, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale; until 1977). Practice Development Associates, Lafayette, California. Dr. James Jackson, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Gordon Jackson, Toronto (inherited from the above in 1979 and sold:
Sotheby's, New York, October 24, 1996, lot 107, illustrated). Acquired at the above by the present owner.
London, French Gallery, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, 1871, no. 38. London, Grosvenor Gallery, Winter Exhibition: The Works of L. Alma-Tadema, 1882, no. 84. London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Spring Exhibition, 1914, no. 9. New York, Robert Isaac Gallery, Exhibition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1962, no. 3. Palm Beach, Florida, The Society of Four Arts, English Paintings of the Victorian Era: A Loan Exhibition, 1966, no. 2, illustrated. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, 1973, no. 11. Sapporo, Japan, Mitsukoshi Department Store, European Traditional Painting, 1976, no. 189, illustrated in color. Utah, Brigham Young University, 1979, no. 16
Illustrated London News, April 15, 1871, p. 370. James Dafforne, "The Works of Laurence Alma-Tadema," Art Journal, XXVI, London, 1875, p. 12. Carel Vosmaer, Alma-Tadema Catalogue, Leiden, circa 1885, no. 106. Helen Zimmern, "L. Alma-Tadema Royal Academician: His Life and Works," Art Journal, Christmas Supplement, London, 1886, p. 14. Percy Cross Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., London, 1905, p. 61. Rudolf Dirks, "The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A.," The Art Journal, Special Christmas Issue, 1910, p. 27. Christopher Forbes, Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, exh. cat., New York, 1973, p. 17, illustrated. Vern G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema, The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, New York, 1977, p. 136 (under the year 1871 as belonging to Dr. J. Jackson, Oregon). Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, no. 132, p. 162, illustrated in color p. 333
