Sappho and Alcaeus . Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1881
oil on panel
Height: 104.1402082804 mm (4.1 in). Width: 122 mm (4.8 in).
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 37.159
Object history
English: William T. Walters, Baltimore, after 1881, by purchase [Deschamps as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
English: [Signature] Lower right: L. Alma Tadema; [Inscription] Lower right: Op CCXXII
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Sappho by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1881, probably showing her school (thiassos) for girls before they get married where Sappho was a teacher of poetry, music and dance. The poet Alkaios (or Alcaeus) is shown, a lover of Sappho. Some say that Sappho had a daughter Kleis and was married with Cercylas from Andros who died when Sappho was young (around 35 years). Alma-Tadema knew that Sappho is described as a short dark-haired woman “τὴν δὲ μορφὴν εὐκαταφρόνητος δοκεῖ γεγονέναι καὶ δυσειδεστάτην, τὴν μὲν γὰρ ὄψιν φαιώδης ὑπῆρχεν, τὸ δὲ μέγεθος μικρὰ παντελῶς
See also : Sappho, Paintings, Drawings
See also : Ancient Greece, Paintings, Drawings
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