Alfred Stevens
(Brussels 1823–1906 Paris)
A Girl Reading, signed A. Stevens, as well as inscribed and signed on the reverse ‘Je declare le tableau ci-contre original et peint par moi A. Stevens’, oil on canvas, 75 x 55.5 cm, framed
Provenance:
Boisgirard, July 25, 2009, lot 228;
there acquired by the current owner, Private Collection Italy.
Girl reading a book depicts a young woman elegantly dressed in a yellow and black gown, reading a book. As she stands in front of the window, the light falls onto her dress and shoulders, as shown in the artist’s sensitive rendering. This part of the room exemplifies the taste of the Second French Empire with lavish blue and gold hangings. Stevens has intentionally created an intimate interaction between his sitter and the viewer, a private moment of which the young girl is unaware.
Alfred Stevens enjoyed considerable success throughout his career, from his beginnings in Brussels, where he studied at the Royal Academy under the Neo-classical painter Francois-Joseph Navez, to Paris where he first exhibited at the Salon in 1853 and at the Exposition Universelle in 1855. Indeed, he was one of the most celebrated painters of contemporary Parisian women during the Belle Epoque.
Specialist: Gautier Gendebien
Gautier Gendebien
+39-334-777 1603
Gautier.Gendebien@dorotheum.it
08.06.2020 - 16:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 40,000.- to EUR 50,000.-
Alfred Stevens
(Brussels 1823–1906 Paris)
A Girl Reading, signed A. Stevens, as well as inscribed and signed on the reverse ‘Je declare le tableau ci-contre original et peint par moi A. Stevens’, oil on canvas, 75 x 55.5 cm, framed
Provenance:
Boisgirard, July 25, 2009, lot 228;
there acquired by the current owner, Private Collection Italy.
Girl reading a book depicts a young woman elegantly dressed in a yellow and black gown, reading a book. As she stands in front of the window, the light falls onto her dress and shoulders, as shown in the artist’s sensitive rendering. This part of the room exemplifies the taste of the Second French Empire with lavish blue and gold hangings. Stevens has intentionally created an intimate interaction between his sitter and the viewer, a private moment of which the young girl is unaware.
Alfred Stevens enjoyed considerable success throughout his career, from his beginnings in Brussels, where he studied at the Royal Academy under the Neo-classical painter Francois-Joseph Navez, to Paris where he first exhibited at the Salon in 1853 and at the Exposition Universelle in 1855. Indeed, he was one of the most celebrated painters of contemporary Parisian women during the Belle Epoque.
Specialist: Gautier Gendebien
Gautier Gendebien
+39-334-777 1603
Gautier.Gendebien@dorotheum.it
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| Auction: | 19th Century Paintings |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 08.06.2020 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 27.05. - 08.06.2020 |