The European Art Sale Part I

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

After the Bath

Auction Closed

January 27, 10:47 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Dutch

1836 - 1912

After the Bath

signed and inscribed L. ALMA-TADEMA op. CCXI (on table)

watercolor on paper, laid down on board

sheet: 14 by 6½ in.; 35.5 by 16.05 cm

framed: 22¾ by 16 in.; 57.7 by 40.6 cm

We are grateful to Vern Swanson for confirming the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the artist's works on paper currently in preparation, and for contributing the catalogue entry.

Commissioned by Messrs. Pilgeram and L. H. Lefevre, London, 1879
Acquired by William H. Vanderbilt, New York, before 1883
Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York (inherited from the above)
Sold by order of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York (Her sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 April, 1945, lot 109)
Roy M. Mason (acquired from the above)

Illustrated London News (13 Dec 1879) p.559.
Magazine of Art (February 1880) p. 159.
The Collection of W. H. Vanderbilt 640 Fifth Ave. New York (1884, no.176) p.82.
Carel Vosmaer, manuscript of Alma-Tadema Catalogue Raisonne (c.1885, no.247); Rudolph Dircks, 1910, p.27.

London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Winter Exhibition, 1879, no.356
On loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1886 to 1903

Catalogue note