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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 5, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Art including an Important Collection of Sculpture | 67 | $****** - ****** | Who Is It? (Inquisitive) |
paintings
29.2 x 22.5 cm (11.5 x 8.86 in)
oil on panel
signed L. Alma Tadema and inscribed Op. CCLXIII (upper left)
Mr. Charles Deschamps, London (commissioned from the artist in 1884)
E. Stainton (acquired from the above)
Sale: Christie's, London, January 30, 1904, lot 72
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (acquired at the above sale)
James Stanley Joyce, Chicago (by 1913)
Beatrice Joyce, Chicago
Hanzel Galleries, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1973)
M. Schweitzer Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Charles Lock, New York (acquired from the above)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1977)
Hammer Galleries, New York (in 1977)
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The artist's correspondence to Deschamps, March 13, 1885; Academy, May 2, 1885, p. 318; "The Grosvenor Exhibition," The Athenaeum, no. 3000, April 25, 1885, p. 540; Henry George Blackburn, Grosvenor Notes, 1885, p. 16; The Year's Art, London, 1886, p. 57, illustrated; Helen Zimmern, "L. Alma Tadema Royal Academician: His Life and Works," Art Journal, Christmas Supplement, 1886, p. 19, illustrated p. 24; Art Journal, 1886, illustrated; Fedor Il'ich Bulgakov, Alma Tadema, Petrograd, 1897, pp. 25, 27, illustrated; Rudolf Dircks, "The later works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S.," Art Journal, supplementary monograph, Christmas issue, December 1910, p. 31; Vern G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema, The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, New York, 1977, p. 139 (with incorrect dimensions); Vern Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, pp. 224-5, no. 300, illustrated p. 424 (with incorrect dimensions)
