Provenance
Commissioned by Messrs. Vanderdoncks, Brussels and purchased by Messrs. Ernest Gambart, London (1864)
Stephen Plummer; sale, Christie's, March 11, 1882, lot 145 (#441) to Lawrence J. Baker, London; sale, Christie's, April 25, 1919, lot 143 (310 gns) to Messrs. Peacock, London
Mrs. M. Higginbottom, Kingston Vale; sale, Christie's, Nov. 30, 1947, lot 7 (#27 6s) to Messrs. Nathan Mitchell, London; sale, Christie's, Nov. 26, 1982, lot 279
Literature
Illustrated London News, April 1868
C. Vosmaer, L. Alma-Tadema and C.J.G. Vosmaer, Alma-Tadema Catalogue Raisonné (unpublished manuscript), Leiden, ca. 1885, p. 28 (incorrectly states that the work was exhibited in the French Gallery in 1865)
M. H. Spielmann, "Laurence Alma-Tadema, R. A.: A Sketch," Magazine of Art, XXI, Nov. 1896-April 1897, pp. 44-45
P. C. Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., London, 1905, pp. 24, 29
R. Dircks, "The later works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S.," Art Journal (supplementary monograph), December 1910 (Christmas issue), p. 25
RA 1913 (ec), Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by the late Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema R.A., O.M., Winter Memorial Exhibition, London, 1913, p. 13
Sir L. Alma-Tadema, "My Reminiscences, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., O.M.," Strand Magazine, XXXVII, London, 1949, p. 290 J.S. Maas, "Gambart and the missing de Keyser Pictures," Connoisseur, October 1975, pp. 171-172
V.G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, London, 1977, pp. 14-15, 135
V.G. Swanson, The Biography and the Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, p. 133, no. 59; p. 294 (illustrated)
