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Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Antony and Cleopatra  wikidata:Q17611907 reasonator:Q17611907
Artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema  (1836–1912)  wikidata:Q240526 q:it:Lawrence Alma-Tadema
 
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Alternative names
Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lourens Alma Tadema, Laurens Alma Tadema
Description Dutch-British painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death 8 January 1836 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1912 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dronryp Edit this at Wikidata Wiesbaden Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1851-1912
Work location
Antwerp (1852-1865), Leeuwarden (1855), Cologne (1861), Pompeii (1863-1864), Paris (1864), City of Brussels (1865-1870), London (1868, 1870-1912), Egypt (1902-1903)
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artist QS:P170,Q240526
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Title
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 41 B.C.
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Yet another gratuitious version
Depicted people
Date 1885
date QS:P571,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 25.7 in (65.4 cm); width: 36 in (91.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,25.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,36U218593
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history Samuel W. Hawk, New York (commissioned from the artist in 1883)
Frau von Munkhausen (acquired from the above in 1887 and until at least 1897)
Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson (in 1923)
Princess Labia (by descent from the above, her father and sold: Sotheby's, London, November 20, 1963, lot 98, illustrated)
Messrs James Coats, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Allen Funt (acquired from the above in 1966 and sold: Sotheby's, Belgravia, November 6, 1973, lot 21, illustrated and as cover)
Leger Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Royal, Vancouver (in circa 1978)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 24, 1987, lot 30, illustrated)
The Margaret Brown Collection (probably acquired at the above sale and sold: Christie's, London, June 11, 1993, lot 123, illustrated)
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Inscriptions signed L. Alma Tadema and inscribed OP. CCXLVI (at lower center on barge railing)
References http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/19th-century-paintings-n08738/lot.65.html Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Sotheby's New York, 05 Mai 2011, lot 65
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