Focus on Spring (painting) and explain the Reception.
Alma-Tadema worked on the painting for four years.  It was completed in late 1894, and bought by the German banker Robert von Mendelssohn.  It was exhibited at the 1895 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, at the 1899 Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in Berlin, and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.  It was a commercial success for Alma-Tadema, who sold many reproductions.
The original painting was sold through Thomas Agnew & Sons in London, and acquired by Charles Yerkes in 1901.  After his death in 1910, it was sold at the American Art Association, and then bought in 1912 from the dealer Henry Reinhardt Galleries in Chicago by Thomas F. Cole.  It was exhibited at the inaugural exhibition at the new building of the Toledo Museum of Art in 1912, and later acquired by Edwin H. Fricke.  It was the inspiration for the scene of Julius Caesar's triumphal entry into Rome in Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 film Cleopatra.
Along with other works from Fricke's collection, including Alma-Tadema's 1906 painting Ask Me No More, it was sold at Parke-Bernet in New York in 1945.  It was acquired through Lewis A. Stone by Mrs. Edward Lane, and sold the same year to Hulett C. Merritt, in Pasadena.  It was bought from his estate sale at Ames Art Galleries in 1956 by Victor Emmanuel Wenzel von Metternich, and acquired from his estate sale at Sotheby's in Los Angeles in 1972 by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
American Art Association Charles Yerkes Toledo Museum of Art Robert von Mendelssohn Große Berliner Kunstausstellung Cleopatra Los Angeles Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Thomas F. Cole Cecil B. DeMille Hulett C. Merritt Julius Caesar Sotheby's triumphal entry J. Paul Getty Museum Pasadena Thomas Agnew & Sons Exposition Universelle Parke-Bernet