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Lawrence Alma-Tadema: The Finding of Moses  wikidata:Q19897958 reasonator:Q19897958
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)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q240526
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Finding of Moses Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"The finding of Moses"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Finding of Moses Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1904
date QS:P571,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 136.7 cm (53.8 in); width: 213.4 cm (84 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,136.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,213.4U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history Sir John Aird, Bt., MP, Hyde Park Terrace, London (acquired directly from the artist in 1904)
Sir John Renton Aird, Bt., London (by descent from the above and sold: Christie's, London, May 3, 1935, lot 34)
Stephen Gooden & Fox, London (acquired at the above sale)
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bt., Gatton Park, Reigate, Surrey (acquired from the above and sold, his posthumous sale: Christie's, London, September 18, 1942, lot 55)
Nathan Mitchell, London (acquired at the above sale)
F. W. Reeves, Bearnett House, Wolverhampton (and sold: unknown country sale, September 13, 1950)
M. Newman, London
Private Collection, England
M. Newman, London (sale: Christie's, London, December 2, 1960, lot 86, unsold)
Clock House Restaurant, Hertfordshire, England (acquired from Newman and Leslie M. Mason)
Leslie M. Mason and Williams & Son (acquired from the above in half-shares, July 1967)
Ira Spanierman Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in August 1967)
Allen Funt, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, Belgravia, November 6, 1973, lot 31)
Private Collector (and sold: Christie's, New York, May 25, 1995, lot 87, illustrated)
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the last owner
Exhibition history
  • London, The Royal Academy, 1905, no. 212
  • London, The Royal Academy, Works by the late Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Winter 1913, no. 155
  • New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt, March-April, 1973, no. 31
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom left:

L Alma Tadema / OP. CCCLXXVII
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, New York, 04 November 2010, lot 56
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The Finding of Moses (1904). Oil on canvas, 137.7 × 213.4 cm. Private collection

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