
Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (1823—1906) was active mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1852. From about 1860 he achieved immense success with his pictures of young...

Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (1823—1906) was active mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1852. From about 1860 he achieved immense success with his pictures of young...

During the 1850s, Alfred Stevens (1823—1906) had found his calling in intimate scenes of women in contemporary dress. His paintings were visual 'poems' of the modern...

Alfred Stevens (1823—1906) expressed the exotic influence in a series of female portraits in Japanese kimono. The model for “Girl in a Kimono”, recorded in the artist’s...

Alfred Stevens (1823—1906) expressed the exotic influence in a series of female portraits in Japanese kimono. “La Parisienne japonaise” shows an elegant woman in a blue...

In 1895 the annual exhibition of the Société national des Beaux-Arts, held at the Palais du Champ-de-Mars in Paris from April to the end of June, included seven...

For many decades, “Avant le Bal” was held in the collection of the prominent Gammell family of Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. As Professor William Coles...