{"id":27331,"date":"2025-05-23T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiek\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/the-sollicitation-alma-tadema-1883\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:37:46","slug":"the-sollicitation-alma-tadema-1883","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema\/the-sollicitation-alma-tadema-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sollicitation &#8211; Lawrence Alma-Tadema, c. 1883"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong><em>The Sollicitation<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, steel engraving made approx. <strong>1883<\/strong> by <strong>Leopold L\u00f6wenstamm<\/strong> after the design of <strong>Lawrence\u00a0Alma-Tadema<\/strong>. Singed in pencil by both L\u00f6wenstaamm and Alma-Tadema. Coloured by a later hand. Size (scene): 22 x 35,3 (frame: 50 x 59 cm.)<\/p>\n<p>This composition was a particular favourite of the artist himself, his close friends, and the wider public: a young woman sits upright on a marble bench, listening to the entreaties of a young man reclining beside her. The man adopts a submissive posture and gazes up at the woman. At the same time, his pose\u2014firmly settled on the bench with his feet crossed\u2014reveals a certain determination: we sense that he will not abandon his plea until the woman yields.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Alma-Tadema produced, in a steady stream, more than two dozen scenes on the theme of courtship. These paintings, mostly of modest size, must have constituted a consistently marketable product for the artist. One of the works with a classically restrained composition was <em>The Solicitation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was a cherished theme in many <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victorian_era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victorian<\/a> novels and genre paintings. The ever-hopeful and respectful posture of the \u2018pleading\u2019 man, and the apparent\u2014or perhaps feigned\u2014indecision of the woman align more closely with the rituals of the Victorian middle class than with the customs of Roman patricians, whose marriages were typically arranged.<\/p>\n<p>There is a painting by Alma-Tadema which depicts Leopold L\u00f6wenstamm creating an engraving of one of Alma-Tadea&#8217;s courtship scenes.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27337 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Leopold-Lowenstam-creating-Alma-Tademas-The-Sollicitation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Leopold-Lowenstam-creating-Alma-Tademas-The-Sollicitation.jpg 569w, https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Leopold-Lowenstam-creating-Alma-Tademas-The-Sollicitation-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 1.850,- (incl. frame)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Sollicitation\u201d, steel engraving made approx. 1883 by Leopold L\u00f6wenstamm after the design of Lawrence\u00a0Alma-Tadema. 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