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Inscription

lower left in tempera: SS (in monogram) / 1874 [final digit abraded and unclear]

Provenance

(Durlacher Brothers, London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1966-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Exhibition History

1966
Durlacher Bros. Simeon Solomon Exhibition, Wellesley College, Boston, May 1966, no. 4 (as High Priest).
1966
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Simeon Solomon, Durlacher Bros., New York, April 1966, no listing of works in cat.
1982
La Bella Mano: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Decorative Arts, The Virginia Museum, Richmond, September 14-October 24, 1982, 25 (as High Priest).
1985
The English Avant-Garde of the 1880s: Aesthetes, Rebels, and Feminists, University of Virginia Library, Richmond, February-March, 1985, no cat.
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 53.
1996
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; and The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 1996-1997.
2006
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1966
Werner, Alfred. "Simeon Solomon: A Rediscovery." Arts Magazine 40/7 (May 1966) p. 51, reproduced.
1986
Seymour, Gayle Marie. "The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986: 213, fig. 198.
1993
NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 53.
2009
Conroy, Carolyn. ”He Hath Mingled with the Ungodly”: The Life of Simeon Solomon after 1873, with a Survey of the Extant Works. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of York, York, 2009: 114-115 and fig. 13.

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