SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, O.M., R.A.

Signed and dated OP.CCCI- / L. Alma-Tadema (lower left)

41,9 x 33 cm.

With Messrs. Lefèvre and Sons, London (commissioned directly from the artist, March 1890);


Private Collection, The Netherlands;


Acquired from the above by a private collector, USA;


New York, Sotheby’s, 22 may 2019, lot no. 11;


Acquired from the above by the present owner.

London, New Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1890, no. 51; 


Leeuwarden, Fries Museum, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, 1 October 2016 - 7 February 2017, no. 163;

Vienna, Belvedere, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, 24 February - 18 June 2017, no. 163;

London, Leighton House Museum, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, 7 July - 29 October 2017, no. 163.

The Art Journal, London, 1890, p. 168;


The Builder, London, 3 May 1890, p. 320;


The Magazine of Art, London, 1890, p. 306;


The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, London, 3 May 1890, p. 537;


Demorest's Family Magazine XXVIII, January 1892, p. 163, no. 3, illustrated opposite the title page;


Rudolf Dircks, ‘The later works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., R.W.S’, Art Journal Christmas Edition, London, 1910, p. 31, illustrated p. 8;


Vern G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient world, London, 1977, p. 140;


Joseph A. Kester, Mythology and Misogyny, The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical Subject Painting, London, 1989, p. 275;


Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, no. 338, p. 241;


Elizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Belvedere, Vienna; Leighton House Museum, London, 2016, pp. 127-8, no. 163, illustrated p. 128.