Alfred Emile Léopold Stevens
La toilette de bal (Woman in a Paisley Shawl)

CultureBelgian
Titles
  • La toilette de bal (Woman in a Paisley Shawl)
Datec. 1870
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsPanel: 22 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (56.5 × 39.4 cm)
Frame: 31 1/4 × 24 3/4 × 3 in. (79.4 × 62.9 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2020.312
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
221 Shell Oil Gallery
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Provenance[Galerie Ernest Le Roy, Brussels, Ochsé]; [Galerie Georges Petit, Paris]; Jeanne Melet-Lanvin (1867-1946), Paris; possibly acquired directly by Marie-Blanche, comtesse de Polignac, née Marguérite di Pietro, 1924; by descent to her daughter,1946; probably by descent to her heirs; [Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, 1981]; [H. Shickman Gallery, New York, by March 13, 1981]; purchased by Charles and Jayne Wrightsman, New York, 1981; [Christie's New York, The Private Collection of Jayne Wrightsman, October, 14, 2020, lot 98]; museum purchase 2020.
Exhibition History(probably) Brussels, Muse´e Moderne, L'œuvre de Alfred Stevens, April-May 1907, also Antwerp, Muse´e des Beaux-Arts, May-June 1907.
Paris, Galerie de la Renaissance, Portraits et figures de femmes: Ingres à Picasso, 1-30 June 1928, p. 25, no. 166, as Femme dans un atelier.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Scènes et figures parisiennes, 1943, no. 206, as Femme au châle Persan.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The work is signed AStevens at center left.
Signed, center left: AStevens.
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