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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 16, 2010 | Sotheby's | London | Victorian & Edwardian Art, Including Masterpieces | 24 | $****** - ****** | In The Temple |
paintings
89.5 x 52 cm (35.24 x 20.47 in)
oil on panel
signed and dated l.r.: L Alma Tadema 71
Commissioned by Ernest Gambart in 1871
Christie's, 9 February 1874, lot 141, where bought by John Graham, Skelmorlie Castle, Ayrshire
Sir Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden, of Nun Appleton House, Bolton Percy, Yorkshire by 1882, and sold by him Christie's, 18 July 1913, lot 22
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
M. Newman, London by whom sold Christie's, 2 December 1955, lot 130, purchased by 'Waters'
Sotheby's, 13 May 1959, lot 81, purchased by 'Fielding'
H.S. Waldron, by whom sold Christie's, 9 October 1959, lot 60, purchased by 'Legers'
Leger Galleries, London
James Cotes Gallery, New York, March 1961
Allen Funt, New York by whom sold Sotheby's, Belgravia, 6 November 1973, lot 11, purchased by The Fine Art Society, London where it remained until 1977
Practice Development Associates, Lafayette, California
Dr. James Jackson, Klamath Falls, Oregon, by whom bequeathed to Gordon Jackson, Toronto in 1979
Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 1996, lot 107 where purchased 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 the Four Arts, English Paintings of the Victorian Era: A Loan Exhibition, 1966, no. 2; 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; Utah, Brigham Young University, 1979, no.16
Illustrated London News, 15 April 1871, p.370; James Dafforne, 'The Works of Laurence Alma-Tadema', in Art Journal, XXVI, 1875, p.12; Carel Vosmaer, Alma-Tadema Catalogue, c.1885, no.106; Helen Zimmern, 'L. Alma-Tadema Royal Academician: His Life and Works', in Art Journal, Christmas edition, 1886, p.14; Percy Cross Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema O.W., R.A., 1905, p.61; Rudolf Dirks, 'The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A.' in Art Journal, Christmas Edition, 1910, p.27; New York Times, 19 July 1913, p.4; Christopher Forbes, Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, 1973, illus. p.17; Vern G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema, The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, 1977, p.136; Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, no.132, p.162, illus. p.333
