National Gallery of Art · Painting
A Difficult Line from Horace
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- overall: 15.24 × 23.5 cm (6 × 9 1/4 in.) framed: 34.29 × 42.55 × 6.99 cm (13 1/2 × 16 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 2015.19.17
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CAB
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- British
- Romantic
- Acquired after publication of British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries
- full figure seated
- figure
Provenance
Commissioned by William H. Stewart [1820-1897], Philadelphia and Paris;[1] (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-4 February 1898, 1st day, no. 13, as _Roman Youth Reading Horace_); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] According to Vern G. Swanson, _The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema_, London, 1990: 215, no. 271.
Inscription
lower left: L. Alma-Tadema Op. / CCXXXII
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