02 paintings, The amorous game, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Welcome Footsteps and A Foregone Conclusion, with Footnotes #103

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836 – 1912
Welcome Footsteps (The Well-Known Footsteps), c. November 1883

Oil on panel
16 by 21¾ in.; 40.6 by 55.2 cm
Private collection

Welcome Footsteps, also known as Well-Known Footsteps, was painted in November 1883 and debuted the following month at the inaugural exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil Colour, founded in London the previous year…

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