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Details
- Alternative title
- Un jongleur
- Date
- 1870
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 77.8 x 48.4 cm sight; 126.0 x 78.0 x 7.3 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.r., oil "Alma Tadema 1870".
- Credit
- Gift of John and Julie Schaeffer 1999
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 45.1999
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1870, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1870–1870
The works of L. Alama-Tadema, Grosvenor Gallery, London, England, Winter 1882–Winter 1882
Corporation loan exhibition, Mansion House, , 1897–1897
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Van Gogh Museum, The Netherlands, 29 Nov 1996–02 Mar 1997
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 21 Mar 1997–08 Jun 1997
Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 41 publications
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Russell Ash, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1989, np, col illus pl 3. As 'Egyptian Juggler'.
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R J Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 2001, pp 48, 52, 57, 91, 147, col illus pp 1 (detail), 43.
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Atkinson J Beavington, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 'Contemporary art – poetic and positive: Rossetti and Alma-Tadema – Linnell and Lawson', Edinburgh, Mar 1883, pp 392–411: p 403.
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Edwin Becker, Edward Morris, Elizabeth Prettejohn and Julian Treuherz (Editors), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Amsterdam, 1996-1997, pp 156–59, no 20, col illus p 157.
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Richard Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians: selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 2001, unnumbered, pp 5, 46, 48, col illus p 48.
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Christie's London (Editor), Fine Victorian pictures, drawings and other works of art, London, 07 Nov 1997, p 68, no 85; col illus p 69 and on cover. Lot. 85.
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Robert Dein, Look, 'The gladiator connection', Melbourne, Nov 2000, p 13, col illus p 13.
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Rudolf Dircks, Art Journal, ‘The art annual: the later works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’, London, Dec 2010, p 27.
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Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 1, 1905, p 28.
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Terry Ingram, Australian Financial Review, ‘Saleroom: Juggling act in the art of giving’, Sydney, 14 Jan 1999, p 26, illus p 26.
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Bruce James, Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Flies in the face of reality’, Sydney, 24 Apr 1999, p 12.
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Michael Liversidge and Catherine Edwards (Editors), ‘Imagining Rome’: British artists and Rome in the 19th century, Bristol, 1996, pp 136–38, no 48.
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Peter Raissis, Look, 'Victorians in togas', Melbourne, Mar 1999, pp 6–7, col illus p 7 and on cover. The image appearing on the cover is a detail of the work.
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Michael Reid, Weekend Australian, 'Give the artful tax dodger a break', Sydney, 27 Nov 1999-28 Nov 1999, p 35, col illus p 35.
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Michael Reid, Weekend Australian, ‘Art market: treasures go public with tax breaks’, Canberra, 13 Mar 1999-14 Mar 1999, p 4, illus p 4.
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Percy Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA, London, 1905, pp 50, 72–73, illus opp p 50.
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[F G Stephens], Athenaeum, 'The Royal Academy (second notice)', London, 07 May 1870, pp 618–19.
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Vern Swanson, Sir Lawrence Alam-Tadema: the painter of the Victorian vision of the ancient world, London, 1977, p 136, no LXXVII. As location unknown.
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Vern Swanson, The biography and catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, p 156, no 119. As 'location unknown'.
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A.G. Temple, Catalogue of the loan collection of pictures by painters of the British school who have flourished during Her Majesty’s reign, London, 1897, p 64, no 104.
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A G Temple, Magazine of Art, 'The Gassiot Bequest to the City of London', London, 1903, pp 518–20: p 520.
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A.G. Temple, The art of painting in the Queen's reign, being a glance at some of the painters and paintings of the British school during the last sixty years, London, 1897, pp 192–93 (as ‘Un Jongleur’), illus opp p 192.
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Helen Zimmern, The art annual: L Alma Tadema Royal Academician: his life and work, London, 1886, p 13.
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Catalogue of the highly important collection […] of Stephen G Holland […] (auction catalogue), London, 25 Jun 1908-29 Jun 1908, p 23, no 110.
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The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, MDCCCLXX, the one hundred and second, London, 1870, p 12, no 153.
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Highly important Victorian paintings and drawings, London, 19 Mar 1979, p 59, no 28, col illus p 58. Catalogue does not specify vendors.
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Christie’s International Magazine, London, Nov 1997, col illus p 107.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1999, Sydney, 1999, pp 6, 20, 52, col illus p 6.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2000, Sydney, 2000, p 19.
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The Magazine Antiques, New York, Mar 1978, col illus p 470. Maurice Sternberg Galleries advertisement.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1999, 'Director's Introduction'; 'Collections: European Art Before 1900', Sydney, 1999, pp 6, 20, col illus p 6.
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19th century European art including the orientalist sale, New York, 23 Oct 2008, col illus p 316 (under no 179).
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Illustrated London News, London, 14 May 1870, p 503.
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British painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, London, [1880], p 138.
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Illustrated Sydney News, ‘The Art Gallery of NSW’, Sydney, 20 Nov 1880, pp 10–11: p 10.
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The Grosvenor Gallery: winter exhibition, London, 1882-1883, p 9, no 27.
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Athenaeum, ‘The Grosvenor Gallery exhibition’, London, 09 Dec 1882, pp 778–80: p 779.
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Catalogue of the first portion of the valuable collection of modern pictures and water-colour drawings lately the property of the Messrs Murietta, London, 30 Apr 1892-03 May 1892, p 23, no 149.
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Catalogue des tableaux modernes de la collection de Monsieur le Baron N A Steengracht van Moyland à la Haye ..., Amsterdam, 10 Sep 1895, p 64, no 102, illus as frontispiece.
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Eigen Haard, The Netherlands, 1895, p 600, illus p 601.
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Times, ‘The Royal Academy exhibition (first article)’, London, 30 Apr 1870, p 12.
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Provenance
Ernest Gambart, 1870, London/England, [dealer] Commissioned by Gambart, sold 1870
José de Murietta, Marquis de Santurce, post 1870, Spain
Christie's London, 30 Apr 1892, London/England, lot.no.149
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, 30 Apr 1892-1893, London/England, purchased by Arthur Tooth & Sons from Christie's London, 30 April 1892, lot no. 149, 810gn
Mr Biesing, 1893
Diligentia, Dec 1893, The Hague/The Netherlands
N.A. Streengracht van Moyland, pre 10 Sep 1895, The Netherlands
Messrs Alfred Preyer, 10 Sep 1895, Amsterdam/The Netherlands, lot 102, sold to Messrs Braskamp, Amsterdam 12,000 guilders
Messrs Braskamp, post 10 Sep 1895, Amsterdam/The Netherlands
Stephen G. Holland, 1897, London/England, In the collection of Stephen G. Holland by 1897
Christie's London, 25 Jun 1908, London/England, lot no. 110
Messrs Wallace, post 25 Jun 1908, London/England, Purchased 25 June 1908 from Christie's London, lot 110, 300gn
Private Collection, pre 1977, Texas/United States of America, Sold 1977.
Maurice Sternberg Galleries, 1977-May 1978, Chicago/Illinois/United States of America
Charles Jerdein, May 1978-19 Mar 1979, London/England
Private Collection, post 1979, United States of America
Auslander and Wittgenstein, 1984-1985, New York/New York/United States of America, [dealer]
Christie's London, 07 Nov 1997, London/England, 'Fine Victorian pictures, drawings and other works of art', lot 85 - 'The property of a gentleman'
John and Julie Schaeffer, 07 Nov 1997-Feb 1999, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of John and Julie Schaeffer 1999. Purchased by Mrs and Mrs Schaeffer at Christie's London, 7 Novemeber 1997 'Fine Victorian pictures, drawings and other works of art', lot 85 - 'The property of a gentleman'.