{"id":24431,"date":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/dev-en\/antiek\/uncategorized\/the-conversion-of-paula-by-st-jerome-alma-tadema-1899\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:03:48","slug":"alma-tadema-conversion-paula-st-jerome-1899","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema\/alma-tadema-conversion-paula-st-jerome-1899\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversion of Paula by St. Jerome &#8211; Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1899"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE CONVERSION OF PAULA BY ST. JEROME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photogravure published in <strong>1899<\/strong> by <strong>Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons<\/strong> in London after the painting (Opus CCCL) by <strong>Lawrence Alma-Tadema<\/strong>, coloured by a later hand. Size: approx. 37.5 \u00d7 82 cm.<\/p>\n<p>The painting on which this heliogravure is based was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1898, where its outstanding technique and beauty led it to be hailed as a masterpiece. The art critic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederic_George_Stephens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F.G. Stephens<\/a> regarded <em>The Conversion of Paula<\/em> as one of Alma-Tadema\u2019s finest achievements. Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons, the art dealers who had commissioned the painting, thus had an important new work on their hands. Alma-Tadema\u2019s letters to Stephens reveal that the painting had not been easy to complete and that the artist was greatly pleased by the critic\u2019s praise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Paula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paula<\/a>, dressed in a sumptuous purple and amber robe woven with gold, reclines against an altar dedicated to Bacchus. She listens to the charismatic but ascetic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St Jerome<\/a>, who is telling her about Christianity. Paula would later abandon the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cult_of_Dionysus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cult of Bacchus<\/a> and devote herself to the new faith.<\/p>\n<p>The work represents one of the relatively few explicitly Christian subjects in Alma-Tadema\u2019s oeuvre. Ten years earlier, he had been criticised for the supposed lack of \u201c<em>moral purpose<\/em>\u201d in his painting &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Roses of Heliogabalus<\/em><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 2.750,- (incl. frame)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONVERSION OF PAULA BY ST. 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