Live Auction 2175Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (Dronrijp 1836-1912 Wiesbaden)
Lot 41 SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND OF THE CANTON MUSEUM OF ART

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

Reverie (Waterfall Nymph)

Closed4 June 2009

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (Dronrijp 1836-1912 Wiesbaden)
Reverie (Waterfall Nymph)
signed and inscribed 'L. Alma-Tadema Op. CLXLI' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 9 in. (35.6 x 22.8 cm.)
Painted in 1874.

Commissioned by Pilgeram & Lefèvre, London, 1874.
James Dyson Perrins, London, 1882.
Charles William Dyson Perrins, Malvern; Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1959, lot 70.
Ralph Cortell, Akron, Ohio, by whom bequethed to the Canton Museum of Art, Ohio, in 1967.

Specialist note

The landscape in this work was begun when the Alma-Tademas visited Penkill Castle in Scotland in the Autumn of 1874. The classically draped figure is Alma-Tadema's second wife Laura, and was added by the artist on their return to London.