File:John Everett Millais - Christmas Eve.jpg
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John Everett Millais: Christmas Eve
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| Title |
Christmas Eve |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1887 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 157.5 cm (62 in); width: 134 cm (52.7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
Bought from the artist by Thomas McClean, London. with Charles J. Wertheimer by 1889. Bought from Wertheimer, together with many other pictures, by Sir Benjamin Robinson, a wealthy South African mine-owner, and thence by descent to his son. Joseph Benjamin Robinson, Jun. (+); Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1970, lot 145 (unsold). Sold by Prince Joseph Labia to The Fine Art Society, London, c. 1981. Private Collection, South America. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 468. with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, from whom purchased by Christopher Gibbs, London, on behalf of a collector, and thence by descent to the present owner. |
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| Exhibition history |
London, McLean's Gallery, 1888. London, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures, 1892, no. 27. London, Royal Academy, Works by the late Sir John Everett Millais Bart, P.R.A., 1898, no. 170. London, The Fine Art Society, Pictures, Drawings and Studies by the late Sir John Everett Millais, P.R.A., 1901. London, Royal Academy, The Robinson Collection: Paintings from the Collection of the late Sir J.B. Robinson, Bt., lent by the Princess Labia, 1958, no. 84. Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Sir Joseph Robinson Collection, lent by the Princess Labia, 1959, no. 99. London, Tate Britain; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum; Fukuoka, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; and Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Millais, 2007-8, no. 133. |
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| Inscriptions |
Artist's monogram and date bottom left: 1887
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| Source/Photographer | Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5631469 (sale 5969, lot 23, London, King Street, 13 December 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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