Alfred Stevens

Dertraime
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 May 1895, lot 48
Brame fils (his sale: 3 June 1895)
Baillehache
Waedemon, Brussels
Albert Sarens (his sale: Brussels, 17 December 1923, lot 51)
William Thys, Brussels
Sale: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 19 April 1967, lot 420

Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, L'oeuvre d'Alfred Stevens, 1900, no. 178
Brussels & Antwerp, L'oeuvre d'Alfred Stevens, 1907, no. 82
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Exposition Alfred et Joseph Stevens, 1928, no. 65
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Centennale de l'art Belge, 1930, no. 364

Fernand Khnopff, 'The art of the late A. Stevens, Belgian painter', The Studio, December 1906, no. XXXIX, p. 215
François Boucher, A. Stevens, Paris, 1930, p. 46, illustrated
Gustave Van Zype, Les Frères Stevens, Brussels, 1936, p. 42, discussed; p. 108, no. 209, listed; pl. 27, illustrated
Gérald Schurr, Les petits maîtres de la peinture - valeur de demain, 1975
Christiane Lefebvre, Alfred Stevens. 1823-1906, Paris, 2006, p. 42, no. 29, catalogued & illustrated

John House: Impressionism, Paris, Politics, Yale University Press, 2004, illustrated

Original canvas. There are some scattered strokes of mainly cosmetic retouching visible under ultraviolet light, notably to the woman's clothing and hat, in the join of the curtain, and to the extreme right upper edge. There is some fine craquelure visible on close examination in raking light. Otherwise this work is in good original condition.
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