A Difference of Opinion

Details

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M, R.A. (1836-1912)
A Difference of Opinion
signed and dated 'L Alma Tadema/OPCCCXXXIX' (upper left)
oil on panel
15 x 8¾ in. (38.1 x 22.3 cm.)

Provenance

With Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, 1896.
The Crocker Estate, San Francisco, 1973.
With M. Schweitzer, New York, 1974.
Charles Lock, New York, 1976.
With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold 1976 for $18,000.
With M. Newman, London, 1976.
The Marquess of Bristol; Christie's, 24 June 1983, lot 85 (£23,000).

Literature

R. Dircks, 'The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S.', Art Journal, Christmas Issue, December 1910, pp. 4, 32.
Vern G. Swanson, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1977, p. 130, pl. 21.
Russell Ash, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1989, pl. 30.
Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, p. 256, no. 377 and p. 459 (illustrated).
Richard Jenkyns, Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritence, 1992, p. 236 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, M. Newman, One Hundred Years of Art 1830-1930, November 1976, no. 25.

Engraved

Auguste Boulard, etching printed on vellum, 1897.

Lot Essay

Executed in the summer of 1896, this painting is unusual for Alma-Tadema in the intensity of emotion shown by the male suitor. The original of the bronze statue of the putto with a goose, adapted by Alma-Tadema for the fountain on the left, is in the Museo Nazionale, Naples.

We are grateful to Dr. Vern Grosvenor Swanson, of the Springville Museum of Art, Utah, for his help in preparing this entry.

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