Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
"An Elequent Silence, 1890"
SIR LAWRENCE ALMA TADEMA
Donrijp 1836-1912 Wiesbaden
AN ELOQUENT SILENCE,
1890
Oil on panel
41,9 x 33 cm.
Signed: lower left ‘L. Alma-Tadema and inscribed OP. CCCI’
Provenance: Private Collection, The Netherlands; Auct. Sotheby’s, New York, 22 may 2019, lot no. 11; Mrs. Lefèvre and Sons, London commissioned directly from the artist, March 1890.
Exhibited: London, New Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1890, no. 51; Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity; Vienna, Belvedere, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity; London, Leighton House Museum, Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity (see below)
Literature: The Art Journal, London, 1890, p. 168; The Builder, London, May 3, 1890, p. 320; The Magazine of Art, London, 1890, p. 306; The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, London, May 3, 1890, p. 537; Demorest's Family Magazine, January 1892, vol. XXVIII, no. 3, p. 163, (ill); 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, p. 241, no. 338; Elizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi, eds., Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, exh. cat., Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Belvedere, Vienna; Leighton House Museum, London, October 1, 2016-October 29, 2017, p. 127-8, illustrated p. 128.