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Alfred Stevens | The Japanese Robe | The Metropolitan Museum of Art James Abbott Mcneill Whistler, Alfred Stevens, European Paintings, Western Art, Museum Of Fine Arts, Museum Of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Metropolitan Museum, Artist Studio

The Artist: The Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (not to be confused with the English sculptor of the same name) was born into an art-loving family in Brussels in 1823. His father collected works by French painters of the period, including Eugène Delacroix, and his grandparents owned a café popular with artists and writers, where the young Stevens and his brothers spent much time

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Alfred Stevens - After the Ball [1874] Women In White, Alfred Stevens, White Dresses, Dresses, White, Art

This painting, also known as Confidence, is one of several by Stevens (Belgian, Blandford Forum, England, 1823 - London, 1906) to treat the theme of consolation. As in his other works from the 1870s, here the anecdotal content of a letter containing distressing news asserts itself in a glimpse of the life of fashionable Parisian women in their elegant interiors. Stevens's subject matter and his meticulous attention to contemporary dress and decor elicited analogies to seventeenth-century…

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