{"id":29281,"date":"2026-08-13T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiek\/niet-gecategoriseerd\/lawrence-alma-tadema-hero-1899\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:52:47","slug":"lawrence-alma-tadema-hero-1899","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/miscellaneous\/lawrence-alma-tadema-hero-1899\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero \u2013 Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1899"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em><strong>Hero<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, heliogravure produced in <strong>1899<\/strong> by Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons after the painting of the same title from 1898 (Opus CCCLII) by <strong>Lawrence Alma-Tadema<\/strong>. Signed in pencil by Alma-Tadema at lower left. Contemporary hand-colouring. Dimensions 37 \u00d7 23.5 cm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hero<\/em> is inspired by the Greek love story of Hero and Leander. Hero was a priestess of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aphrodite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aphrodite<\/a> and lived in a tower at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sestos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sestos<\/a>, on the European shore of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dardanelles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hellespont<\/a>. As a priestess she was required to remain unmarried, but naturally, she fell in love all the same. Leander lived in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abydos_(Hellespont)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abydos<\/a>, on the opposite side of the strait. They met in secret. Every night Leander swam across the Hellespont (about 1,300 metres) to visit her, guided by the light of a lamp that Hero kept burning for him at the top of her tower.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this could not end well: <em>\u201csuch pleasures are too exquisite to last.\u201d<\/em> A storm blows up: <em>\u201cThe full-fledg&#8217;d whirlwinds their hoarse voices try, \/ And drive the clouds, and bluster thro&#8217; the sky. \/ The mounting waves, that peaceful crept before, \/ Boil into rage, and tumble to the shore.\u201d<\/em> The wind extinguishes the lamp and Leander does not survive: <em>\u201cAt once the torch down by the winds was tost, \/ And with its flame, his life and love were lost.\u201d<\/em> His lifeless body is washed ashore beneath Hero&#8217;s tower. <em>\u201cThen darting headlong with a furious leap \/ From the high tow&#8217;r she plung&#8217;d into the deep.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The tragic love story was already known in antiquity and was told, among others, by Ovid and later <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Hero_and_Leander,_a_poem_by_Musaeus\/Hero_and_Leander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at length by the Greek poet Musaeus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For his depiction Alma-Tadema chose a precise moment from the story. Dawn breaks after the stormy night, but Leander has not appeared. Hero stands alone at the foot of the marble steps of the tower, gazing out over the still turbulent Hellespont in the hope that her lover has lost his way in the darkness. Musaeus describes the moment: <em>\u201cThe barren beach and seas she round survey&#8217;d, \/ And hop&#8217;d her lover in the dark had stray&#8217;d.\u201d<\/em> Only shortly afterwards does Hero discover Leander&#8217;s lifeless body on the shore, but Alma-Tadema leaves the dramatic d\u00e9nouement outside the picture. The restless waves and heavy sky nevertheless lend the scene an ominous undertone: the viewer, after all, knows the fate awaiting Hero and Leander.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2512\" data-end=\"3064\">Price: Euro 2.150,-<br \/>\nRESERVED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHero\u201d, heliogravure produced in 1899 by Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons after the painting of the same title from 1898 (Opus CCCLII) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Signed in pencil by Alma-Tadema at lower left. Contemporary hand-colouring. Dimensions 37 \u00d7 23.5 cm. Hero is inspired by the Greek love story of Hero and Leander. 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