19th Century European Art

19th Century European Art

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema

On the Roman Staircase

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May 26, 07:16 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Dutch

1836 - 1912

On the Roman Staircase


signed and inscribed L. Alma-Tadema OP. CVIII (balustrade upper right)

watercolor on paper

sheet: 17¼ by 3¾ in.; 43.8 by 9.5 cm

framed: 25¾ by 12 in.; 65.4 by 30.4 cm

Commissioned by Messrs. Ernest Gambart, London, 1872
Emanuel Walter, San Francisco
His bequest to the San Francisco Institute of Art
Sale: Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 8 March 1971, lot 206
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Charles Bassett, San Francisco
Private collection
Carel Vosmaer, Catalogue Raisonné of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, unpublished manuscript with later additions, Leiden c. 1885, no. 129
Art Journal, 1888, p. 323, illustrated
Tadema letter to Frederic George Stephens, 6 July 1888, Bodleian Library (77)
Rudolf Dircks, "The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A.,"
Art Journal supplementary monograph, Christmas Issue, 1910, p. 27
Emanuel Walter Collection, San Francisco Institute of Art (mc, nd), no. 75