Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001638The Golden Age
Provenance
Collection of the artist, 1875 [lent to London 1875, along with The Festival, 2002.380]. Possibly B. Thomas [according to Fine Arts Society 1974]. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, by 1972, with The Festival [see Burlington Magazine 1972]; sold to Suzette Morton Davidson (née Zurcher) (died 1996), Santa Barbara and Chicago, 1973 with The Festival [according to bill of sale, dated January 31, 1973, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute with her husband Eugene Davidson (died 2002) having life interest, 2002.
Exhibition history
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1875, cat. 233.
Publications
Henry Blackburn, Academy Notes: 1875 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), pp. 22–23, no. 236. James Dafforne, “The Works of Edward J. Poynter, R. A.,” Art Journal 3 (1877), p. 51. William Cosmo Monkhouse, Sir Edward John Poynter, President of the Royal Academy (London: Virtue & Co., 1897), n. p. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, vol. 14 (London: George Allen, 1904), p. 273 under no. 233. Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904, vol. 6 (London: H. Graves and Co., Ltd., 1906), p. 197, no. 236. Burlington Magazine 114 (December 1972), p. lxiv (ill.). Fine Art Society, Paintings, Water-Colours, and Drawings from the Handley-Read Collection, exh. cat. (London: Fine Arts Society, 1974), under no. 63.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edward John Poynter (English, 1836–1919)
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 137.2 × 53.4 cm (54 × 21 in.); Framed: 162.2 × 78.7 cm (63 7/8 × 31 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- England
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Suzette Morton Davidson
- Accession no.
- 2002.379
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