#Alfred Stevens

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'after the ball,' alfred stevens, oil on canvas, 1874.

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Archaic Words: Colours

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Adarnech - colour like gold

Albyn - white

Argentine - silver

Ashied - made white

Aureat - golden

Bicollede - blackened

Blackbrown - brunette

Blewing - blue paint

Bleye - blue

Brune - brown

Camet - silver

Ende - a blue colour

Falwe - yellow

Florrey - a blue dye

Gaudy green - a light green colour

Ginger - a pale red colour

Gold-hewen - of a golden colour

Gridelin - a sort of colour composed of white and red

Grisard - grey

Grizle - a darkish grey

Inde - azure-coloured

Minim - a kind of brown tawny colour

Parvenke - a pink

Pear-coloured - red

Purpuring - having a purple colour

Sangronie - blood-red colour

Shay - a light colour

True blue - the best blue colour

Tuly - a kind of red or scarlet colour

Umber - a sort of brown colour

Vermaile - red

Virent - green, unfaded

Watchet - a pale blue colour

Whity brown - a pale dusky brown

Yvor - ivory

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Winter, 1877

Alfred Stevens

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Young Woman Reading (1856) by Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1823-1906), oil on canvas, Private Collection

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going through alfred stevens' paintings and came across one piece of a lady with a tiny dog on her arm

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Alfred Stevens, Después del baile

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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906, Belgian) ~ Reclining Partial Nude, n/d

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art history moodboard – mina harker

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The Sick Girl – Félix Vallotton // Vampire – Edvard Munch // The Letter – Alfred Stevens // Trompe l’œil: A Quodlibet with Letters and a Roll of Blue Paper – Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts // Portrait of a Russian Actress – Konrad Krzyżanowski // Allegory of the Eucharist – unknown artist // Study in Red (Emily Gertrude Littlejohns Bartlett) – Charles William Bartlett // Young Woman Writing a Letter – Federico Zandomeneghi // Illustration from La Morte Amoureuse – Eugène Decisy and Paul Albert Laurens

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The Cup of Tea, Alfred Stevens. 1874.

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"Moonlight seascape"(1892) by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906,Belgian)

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Title: Moonlit seascape

Artist: Alfred Stevens

Date: 1892

Style: Impressionism

Genre: Marina

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The Porcelain Collector

Artist: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

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Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1817-1875)

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Palm Sunday, ca. 1862

Alfred Stevens

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Alfred Stevens - The Bath, 1873 Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Apparently, two version of the paintings existed, one of which was reportedly destroyed in one of Vienna's fires. The painting was executed around 1873-74.

Stevens was trained as a painter in Brussels. He finished his studies in Paris and thereupon established himself there. During the Second Empire he pioneered and perfected the domestic interior scene, which the Impressionists later adopted. He was inspired by Pieter de Hooch and Vermeer, and painted both on wood panel and, as in the case of Le bain, on canvas.

Stevens made his name in Paris as a painter of beautifully dressed ladies. Unlike Franz Xaver Winterhalter, the official portraitist of the French imperial family, Stevens chose his models among the wealthy upper class ladies. These demi-mondaines were maintained by their wealthy lovers, and passed their time reading books, making themselves up or at salons and exhibitions while waiting for their lovers to return. The model depicted in Le bain can also be seen in Stevens' Souvenirs and Regrets.

The painting depicts an apathetic Parisian demi mondaine having a bath. Above the tub there are, fixed to the wall, a swan-shaped tap and a white fixture in the shape of a shell. Instead of holding a bath brush, the model holds two white roses in her right hand, which crosses her body and leans against the tub's side.

The rose may be viewed as a symbol of love and beauty, whereas the tap in the shape of a swan neck might refer to the classical myth of Leda and the swan, adding an erotic subtext to the painting. via

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Little Girl with Ducks (Alfred Stevens, 1881)