A Difficult Line from Horace, 1881

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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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.17

Artists / Makers

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (painter) British, born in the Netherlands, 1836 - 1912

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Inscription

lower left: L. Alma-Tadema Op. / CCXXXII

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.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Stewart, William H.

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 June 1978, unnumbered catalogue.

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 June - 28 August 1983, unpublished checklist, no. 2, as Roman Youth Reading Horace.

2001: Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 169.

1990: Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. London, 1990: 215, no. 271.