Friday, June 21, 2019

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1823-1906)

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
The Painter and his Model
1855
oil on canvas
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Will you go out with me, Fido?
1859
oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
In Memoriam
ca. 1861
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
The Reader
ca. 1865
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
A Duchess (The Blue Dress)
ca. 1866
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Alfred Émile Léopold Joseph Victor Stevens (11 May 1823 - 24 August 1906) – Belgian painter, active mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1852.  From about 1860 he achieved immense success with his pictures of young ladies in elegant interiors dressed in the height of fashion.

Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Hesitation
ca. 1867
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
The Bath
ca. 1867
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
The Visit
1870
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Memories and Regrets
ca. 1874
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
After the Ball
1874
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Young Woman looking in a Mirror
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
All Souls College, University of Oxford

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Young Woman with a Japanese Screen
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
The Parisian Sphinx
ca. 1880
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
In the Studio
1888
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York