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| Keywords: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, RA, OM - Sappho and Alcaeus - Walters 37159.jpg In 1870 the Dutch-born Belgian-trained artist Alma-Tadema moved to London where he found a ready market among the wealthy middle classes for paintings re-creating scenes of domestic life in imperial Roman times In this work however he turns to early Greece to illustrate a passage by the ancient Greek poet Hermesianax active ca 330 BC preserved in Atheneaus Deipnosophistae Banquet of the Learned book 2 line 598 On the island of Lesbos Mytilene in the late 7th century BC Sappho and her companions listen rapturously as the poet Alcaeus plays a kithara Striving for verisimilitude Alma-Tadema copied the marble seating of the Theater of Dionysos in Athens although he substituted the names of members of Sappho's sorority for those of the officials incised on the Athenian prototype 1881 oil on panel cm 66 122 ; Framed cm 104 14 154 94 accession number 37 159 10245 William T Walters Baltimore after 1881 by purchase Deschamps as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters after 1881 Signature Lower right L Alma Tadema; Inscription Lower right Op CCXXII 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; Taft Museum of Art Cincinatti; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Memphis; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1991-1992 Victorians British Painting in the Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901 National Gallery of Art Washington 1997 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 Howard Pyle and the American Renaissance Brandywine River Museum Chadds Ford 2007 Victorian Painting The Fine Arts Society London 1977 place of origin France PD-old-auto 1912 Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
