Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (1836-1912)

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (1836-1912)

A Study of an Oak Tree

indistinctly signed, inscribed and dated 'To my dear George Leslie/from his friend L. Alma-Tadema/1900'; oil on canvas laid down on panel
14 x 17½in. (35.5 x 44.5cm.)

來源

George Dunlop Leslie, R.A.+; Christie's, 8 July 1921, lot 108 (unsold at 9 gns.)

出版

Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, p.261, no.394

展覽

London, Royal Academy, Alma-Tadema Memorial Exhibition, Winter 1913, no.121
Alabama, Auburn University, Exhibition of British and American Paintings, 1976, no.19

拍品專文

The sketch can be dated to c.1900 on grounds of style, so it must have been given to the painter G.D. Leslie about the time it was painted. Leslie is best known for his genre scenes in the 'aesthetic' style, but as Professor Vern Swanson observes (loc. cit.,), he 'occasionally ventured into Greco-Roman subjects and an exchange of classical ideas and information probably initiated this gift by Alma-Tadema.' The sketch is the only known example of a pure landscape by Tadema since about 1880, and is larger that the format he usually adopted (8 x 13 in.) for studies of this type.