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SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA O.M., R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1836-1912)
A Coign of Vantage
signed and inscribed 'L. Alma-Tadema/op. CCCXXXIII' (on the sphinx's plinth, center left)
oil on panel
25 1/8 x 17 5/8 in. (63.8 x 44.7 cm.)
Painted in 1895.
Provenance
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, probably acquired directly from the artist.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired directly from the above, 23 December 1895.
Clarence Melville Hyde (1846-1918) and Lillia Babbitt Hyde (1856-1939), New York, acquired directly from the above, 19 February 1896.
Her estate sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 March 1940, lot 69.
with L. J. Marion (probably Louis J. Marion (1904-1984)), acquired at the above sale.
with Gimbels Art Gallery, New York, by 1945, until at least 1946.
Terrence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings (1903-1976), New York and Athens.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 February 1964, lot 85, as On the Terrace.
with Charles Jerdein, London, acquired at the above sale.
Allen Albert Funt (1914-1999) and Marilyn Laron Funt, New York and California, by 1969.
His sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 6 November 1973, lot 27.
with The Fine Art Society, London, acquired at the above sale.
John Stanley Marshall Scott (1935-2020), London, 1974, until at least 1977.
with M. Newman Ltd., London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 5 April 1977.
Literature
J. C. Francis, 'Fine Art Gossip,' The Athenæum, London, 30 November 1895, pp. 759-760.
H. Zimmern, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema R.A., London, 1902, p. 72.
R. Dircks, 'Sir L. Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S.,' Art Journal, London, December 1910, pp. 16, 32, illustrated.
The Art News, vol. XXXVIII, New York, 24 February 1940, p. 3.
Art News, New York, 15-31 March 1945, p. 37, illustrated, as Coin [sic] of Vantage.
C. R. Henschel, Exhibition Celebrating Knoedler, One Hundred Years 1846-1946, exh. cat., New York, 1946, under no. 121.
L. Knoedler Sterner, 'Knoedler Century: Selling Art Since 1846 to an Expanding Country,' Art News, New York, April 1946, p. 20, illustrated.
G. Reynolds, Victorian Painting, London, 1966, p. 123.
M. Amaya, 'The Painter Who Inspired Hollywood,' The Sunday Times, London, 18 February 1968, p. 27, illustrated.
J. Maas, Victorian Painters, London, 1969, pp. 182, 203, illustrated.
R. Ash, 'The Sale of The Allen Funt Collection of Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ' Art At Auction: The Year at Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 1973-74, New York, 1974, pp. 76, 81, fig. 6, illustrated.
M. Amaya, 'A Vision of Rome,' The Victorians: A World Built to Last, New York, pp. 84-85, illustrated.
Alma-Tadema, New York, 1977, n.p., no. 37, illustrated.
V. G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The painter of the Victorian vision of the Ancient world, New York, 1977, pp. 38-39, 41, 140, illustrated.
R. Borger, Drei Klassizisten: Alma Tadema, Ebers, Vosmaer, Leiden, 1978, p. 16, no. 333.
B. B. Fredericksen, Alma Tadema's SPRING, Malibu, CA, 1978, pp. 14-15, illustrated.
C. Wood, Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters 1860-1914, London, 1983, pp. 49, 120, illustrated.
R. Ash, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema New York, 1990, n.p., pl. 29, illustrated.
V. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema London, 1990, pp. 253, 456, no. 371, also illustrated on the back of the slipcase.
R. Jenkyns, Dignity and Decadence, London, 1992, pp. 234-235, 283, illustrated.
J. Rishel, 'Baltimore and Cincinnati, Alma-Tadema,' Burlington Magazine, vol. 134, no. 1070, London, May 1992, p. 333.
E. Becker and E. Prettejohn et al., Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema exh. cat., Zwolle, 1996, pp. 98, 122, 254-256, 260, no. 79, also illustrated on the cover.
R. J. Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema London and New York, 2001, pp. 147, 161-163, 181, illustrated.
J. B. Jiminez and J. Banham, eds., Dictionary of Artists' Models, London and Chicago, 2001, pp. 327-328.
E. Swinglehurst, Lawrence Alma-Tadema San Diego, 2001, p. 100, 110-111, illustrated.
R. J. Barrow, The Use of Classical Art and Literature by Victorian Painters, 1860-1912, Lewiston, NY, 2007, p. 38.
R. Verhoogt, Art in Reproduction: Nineteen-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 13, 14, 30, 524, 537, pl. 1, illustrated.
H. Mallalieu, 'Collector Releases 1,000 Items from Hoard,' The Times, London, 14 June 2014, online only edition.
W. Joustra, Kunst Kleurt het Leven: Leven en werk van Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Bornmeer, 2015, p. 92, illustrated.
E. Prettejohn and P. Trippi. eds., Lawrence Alma-Tadema At Home in Antiquity, exh. cat., London, 2016, pp. 44, 108, 125, 127, 196, 224, fig.159, also illustrated on the cover.
Q. Broughall, 'Changing Their Sky, Not Their Soul: Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Vision of the Ancient Mediterranean,' The Ancient Mediterranea Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts: Sailing in Troubled Waters, New York, 2017, p. 204.
J. Hilton, 'Cecil John Rhodes, the Classics and Imperialism,' South Africa, Greece, Rome: Classical Confrontations, Cambridge, 2017, pp. 109-110, fig. 3.11, illustrated.
X. Zhang, M. Constable, K. L. Chan, J. Yu, and W. Junyan, Computational Approaches in the Transfer of Aesthetic Values from Paintings to Photographs: Beyond Red, Green and Blue, Singapore, 2018, p. 64, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long-term loan, 1971-1972.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, March-April 1973, no. 27, illustrated.
Rotterdam, Rotterdam Arts Foundation, Ary Scheffer Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Charles Rochussen of De Vergankelijkheid van de Roem, 12 May-24 June 1974, p. 3, fig. 2, illustrated, as Een geschikt punt.
Leeuwarden, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof, De wereld van Alma Tadema, July-September 1974, p. 31, no. 35.
Sheffield, Sheffield City Art Galleries, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912, 3 July-8 August 1976; also Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, 21 August-13 September 1976, no. 20, illustrated on the cover.
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Empires Restored, Elysium Revisited: The Art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 21 September 1991-5 January 1992; also Baltimore, Walters Art Galley, 5 February-31 March 1992; Cincinnati, Taft Museum, 23 April-11 June 1992; Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 12 July-6 September, pp. 26, 106-107, no. 43, illustrated.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 29 November 1996-2 March 1997; also Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 21 March-8 June 1997, no. 79.
Leeuwarden, Fries Museum, Lawrence Alma-Tadema At Home in Antiquity, 1 October 2016-7 February 2017; also Vienna, Belvedere, 24 February-18 June 2017; London, Leighton House Museum, 7 July-29 October 2017, pp. 44, 108, 125-127, 196, 198, 224, no. 117, fig. 159, also illustrated on the cover.