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1868

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: unframed: 22 × 33 1/4 in. (55.9 × 84.5 cm)
Credit Line: Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund
Accession Number: 1965.25
Culture: British
Period: 19th century
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

(From Swanson, 1990, no. 102)

Commissioned by Messers Ernest Gambart, London, 1868. Sold 1868 to Jose de Murietta (Marquis de Santurce) Catalan, Spain. Sold Christies, 1892 (150), to Messers Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; George E. Bellis, by 1896; James Briggs-Bury; Mrs. L. Halle, by 1913; Messers Richard Howarth, Blackburn, Lancashire; Messers Stephen Gooden & Fox, London, sold 1965; bought by Yale University Art Gallery (Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund).

Bibliography

R J Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema (London: Phaidon Press, 2001), 39–40, 52, 57, ill

Vern G Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (London: Garton & Co, 1990), no. 102, ill

C. Franklin Sayre, "Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's 'A Roman Amateur'," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 34 (1973), 12–17, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

fountain statue

Signed

signed center, edge of table: "L. Alma-Tadema 1868"

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