File:Alma-Tadema The Education of the Children of Clovis.jpg

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Education of the Children of Clovis (or School of Vengeance, or Training of Clotilde's Sons)  wikidata:Q124993657 reasonator:Q124993657
Artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema  (1836–1912)  wikidata:Q240526 q:it:Lawrence Alma-Tadema
 
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Alternative names
Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lourens Alma Tadema, Laurens Alma Tadema
Description Dutch-British painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death 8 January 1836 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1912 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dronryp Wiesbaden
Work period 1851-1912
Work location
Antwerp (1852-1865), Leeuwarden (1855), Cologne (1861), Pompeii (1863-1864), Paris (1864), City of Brussels (1865-1870), London (1868, 1870-1912), Egypt (1902-1903)
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artist QS:P170,Q240526
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Title
Education of the Children of Clovis (or School of Vengeance, or Training of Clotilde's Sons)
label QS:Len,"Education of the Children of Clovis (or School of Vengeance, or Training of Clotilde's Sons)"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description

L'éducation des enfants de Clovis

(opus XIV) here
Date 1861
date QS:P571,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 51 in (129.5 cm); width: 70 in (177.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,51U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,70U218593
Object history
  • Antwerp Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (acquired in 1861)
  • King Leopold of Belgium (won from the above's lottery and hung in the Royal Palace, Brussels until sold after 1882)
  • Sir John Pender, London (by 1890 and sold Christie's, London, May 29, 1897, lot 81)
  • Stephen Gooden & Fox, London (acquired at the above sale)
  • Private Collection, Brazil (since the 1940s)
  • Property of an Estate, Brazil (and sold, Christie's, London, March 25, 1994, lot 84, illustrated)
  • Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Inscriptions signed L. Alma Tadema and dated 1861 (lower right)
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/19th-century-european-art-n08783/lot.64.html

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The Education of the Children of Clovis (1861). Oil on canvas, 127 × 176.8 cm. Private collection. Queen Clotilde, wife of King Clovis, is shown training her three young children the art of hurling the axe to avenge the death of her father.

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