Twixt Venus and Bacchus Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1882

Twixt Venus and Bacchus
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1882
From the collection of
The Walters Art Museum
Details
Title: Twixt Venus and Bacchus
Creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., O.M. (Anglo-Dutch, 1836-1912)
Date Created: 1882
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Roles: Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., O.M. (Anglo-Dutch, 1836-1912)
Provenance: William T. Walters, 1882, by commission; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Object Type: watercolors
Medium: watercolor on paper
Inscriptions: [Signed] Lower right: Alma Tadema --
Exhibitions: A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979., A Connoisseur's Portfolio: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1983., Empires Restored, Elysium Revisited: The Art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, AJ Amsterdam; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis. 1991-1992.
Dimensions: H: 22 3/4 x W: 11 1/2 in. (57.8 x 29.2 cm)
Credit Line: Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1882
Classification: Painting & Drawing
Accession Number: 37.974

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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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