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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
British, born Netherlands, 1836–1912
Pine Trees in a Roman Park
1876
This unfinished sketch is thought to depict the garden of the Villa Borghese in Rome, which Alma-Tadema painted while visiting the city with his family in 1876. Holes at each corner suggest the artist worked outside, with the canvas pinned to a board. The study was later mounted on plywood, perhaps by the artist’s daughter Anna, who wrote her father’s name and her own initials in the bottom right corner.
Image Caption
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Pine Trees in a Roman Park, 1876, oil on canvas, mounted on panel. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Joseph F McCrindle Collection, 2009.12.1
Medium
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Dimensions
8 11/16 x 14 in. (22.1 x 35.5 cm)
Object Number
2009.12.1
Acquisition
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Robert Isaacson Gallery. An Exhibition to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Robert Isaacson Gallery, 1962. Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. London: Garton & Co., 1990. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Estate of the artist; [James Coats Gallery, New York, by 1962];¹ sale, Sotheby’s, London, 22 July 1970, no. 322, as A Park in Rome, sold to Morgan; C. Morgan, New York (from 1970); sale, Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 25 July 1972, no. 139, sold to Sewell; [Brian Sewell, London, sold to McCrindle, 1973]; Joseph F. McCrindle, New York and London (1973–d. 2008); Joseph F. McCrindle Estate (2008–9, given to the Clark, as Study of a Garden); Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, 2009.
1. According to Vern Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, p. 188; however, in Robert Isaacson Gallery, 50th Anniversary of the Death of Sir LAwrence Alma-Tadema, 1962, no lender for the painting is identified.