19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
On the Roman Staircase
Lot Closed
May 26, 07:16 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
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
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Carel Vosmaer, Catalogue Raisonné of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, unpublished manuscript with later additions, Leiden c. 1885, no. 129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
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