Alfred Stevens The Desperate Woman Painting ID:: 3731 Alfred Stevens1.jpg
The Desperate Woman Musee Royal des Beaux Arts, Antwerp
Alfred Stevens What Is Called Vagrancy Painting ID:: 11063 Alfred Stevens3.jpg
What Is Called Vagrancy 1855()1855 Exposition Universelle
4'4'' x 5' 3 3/4''(132 x 162cm)Bequest of Leon Lhermitte,1926
Alfred Stevens Family Scene Painting ID:: 54045 new19/Alfred Stevens-353642.jpg
Family Scene mk235
c.1880
Oil on canvas
65.3x51.5cm
Alfred Stevens autumn flowers Painting ID:: 64363 new22/Alfred Stevens-853545.jpg
autumn flowers 1869
brussels, muse'e royal des beaux-arts
Alfred Stevens Pleasant Letter Painting ID:: 70927 new23/Alfred Stevens-879647.jpg
Pleasant Letter Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 66 x 55 cm
Alfred Stevens Elegants sur les Boulevards Painting ID:: 73466 new24/Alfred Stevens-949887.jpg
Elegants sur les Boulevards Original Photograph of Oil Painting "ElXgants sur les Boulevards" by Alfred Stevens (owned by myself and purchased form Cosmopolitan Art Gallery La Jolla, CA, USA)
Alfred Stevens Elegants sur les Boulevards Painting ID:: 75149 new24/Alfred Stevens-849677.jpg
Elegants sur les Boulevards English: Original Photograph of Oil Painting "Elegants sur les Boulevards" by Alfred Stevens (owned by myself and purchased form Cosmopolitan Art Gallery La Jolla, CA, USA)
Date ca. 1888
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Alfred Stevens The Japanese Parisian. Painting ID:: 94255 new26/Alfred Stevens-953449.jpg
The Japanese Parisian. 1872(1872)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 105 x 150 cm (41.3 x 59.1 in)
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Alfred Stevens Reverie Painting ID:: 94256 new26/Alfred Stevens-553798.jpg
Reverie circa 1878(1878)
Medium oil on canvas
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Alfred Stevens Original Photograph Painting ID:: 94257 new26/Alfred Stevens-949833.jpg
Original Photograph c. 1888
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Alfred Stevens Allegory of the night Painting ID:: 94258 new26/Alfred Stevens-356437.jpg
Allegory of the night cjr
Alfred Stevens La Parisienne Painting ID:: 96768 new26/Alfred Stevens-744869.jpg
La Parisienne oil on canvas, 92.5 x 60 cm
Date 1880(1880)
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Alfred Stevens The short sighted woman Painting ID:: 96769 new26/Alfred Stevens-893489.jpg
The short sighted woman oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm
Date 1903
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Alfred Stevens La Fillette aux canards Painting ID:: 97067 new26/Alfred Stevens-787439.jpg
La Fillette aux canards 1881. Oil on canvas. 101 x 74 cm
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Alfred Stevens A portrait of Sarah Bernhardt Painting ID:: 97721 new26/Alfred Stevens-864849.jpg
A portrait of Sarah Bernhardt oil on canvas. 33 x 24.8 cm
Date c. 1882
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1823-1906
Alfred Stevens Galleries
Flemish
Alfred Emile Stevens (May 11, 1823 - August 29, 1906) , Belgian painter, was born in Brussels.
El??gants sur les BoulevardsHis father, an old officer in the service of William I of the Netherlands, was passionately fond of pictures, and readily allowed his son to draw in the studio of François Navez, director of the Brussels Academy.
In 1844 Stevens went to Paris and worked under the instructing of Camille Roqueplan, a friend of his father's; he also attended the classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where Ingres was then professor. In 1849 he painted at Brussels his first picture, A Soldier in Trouble, and in the same year went back to Paris, where he definitely settled, and exhibited in the Salons. He then painted Ash-Wednesday Morning, Burghers and Country People finding at Daybreak the Body of a Murdered Gentleman, An Artist in Despair, and The Love of Gold.
Allegory of the Night
MSK, Oostende, BelgiumIn 1855 he exhibited at the Antwerp Salon a little picture called At Home, which showed the painter's bent towards depicting ladies of fashion. At the Great Exhibition in Paris, 1855, his contributions were remarkable, but in 1857 he returned to graceful female subjects, and his path thenceforth was clear before him. At the Great Exhibition of 1867 he was seen in a brilliant variety of works in the manner he had made his own, sending eighteen exquisite paintings; among them were the Lady in Pink (in the Brussels Gallery), Consolation, Every Good Fortune, Miss Fauvette, Ophelia, and India in Paris.
At the Paris International Exhibitions of 1878 and 1889, and at the Historical Exhibition of Belgian Art, Brussels, 1880, he exhibited The Four Seasons (in the Palace at Brussels), The Parisian Sphinx, The Japanese Mask, The Japanese Robe, and The Lady-bird (Brussels Gallery).
"Alfred Stevens is one of the race of great painters," wrote Camille Lemonnier, "and like them he takes immense pains with the execution of his work." The example of his finished technique was salutary, not merely to his brethren in Belgium, but to many foreign painters who received encouragement from the study of his method. The brother of Alfred Stevens, Joseph Stevens, was a great painter of dogs and dog life. See J. du Jardin, L'Art flamand; Camille Lemonnier, Histoire des beaux arts en Belgique.