A juggler Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1870

A juggler
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1870
From the collection of
Art Gallery of New South Wales
An itinerant Egyptian entertainer is juggling with eggs in the atrium of a luxurious Roman villa. Alma-Tadema reconstructs the scene with scrupulous attention to historical detail. Yet he conceives the subject casually as if it were a snapshot of real life. Alma-Tadema’s combination of the archaeological and the anecdotal scored an immense success with a Victorian public well practised at reading the story in a picture.
Details
Title: A juggler
Creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date Created: 1870
Physical Dimensions: 77.8 x 48.4 cm sight; 126.0 x 78.0 x 7.3 cm frame
Type: Painting
Rights: Gift of John and Julie Schaeffer 1999
Medium: oil on panel
Signature & Date: Signed and dated u.r., oil "Alma Tadema 1870".
Object Alternate Title: Un jongleur
Artist Country: England, Netherlands

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Jan 8, 1836 - Jun 25, 1912

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Frisian painter of special British denizenship.
Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.
Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.
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