Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Commissioned by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, in 1894;

From whom acquired by Mrs Selma Laufer, New York, by 1895;

With Asahi Art Co. Ltd, Tokyo, by 1970;

Private collection, Mexico;

Thence by descent;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 1 February 2019, lot 427;

Where acquired by the present owner.

Catalogue of the Winter Exhibition at Arthur Tooth & Sons' Galleries, London 1894, no. 26, p. 8 (published as a photogravure print by Arthur Tooth & Sons in 1895);

‘Notes on Art and Archaeology’, in The Academy, London, 27 October 1894, no. 1173, p. 335;

The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, London, 3 November 1894, p. 526;

F.I. Bulgakov, Alma-Tadema, St Petersburg 1897, reproduced p. 8;

H. Zimmern, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, London 1902, p. 72;

R. 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. 4, reproduced p. 32;

V.G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, London 1977, p. 140;

V.G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London 1990, pp. 250–51, no. 364, reproduced p. 452;

R. Verhoogt, Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer, Amsterdam 2007, p. 674 n. 210.

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd, Annual Winter Exhibition, October 1894, no. 26;

Birmingham, Royal Society of Arts, 31st Spring Exhibition, 1896, no. 65.