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

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Artist Alfred Emile Léopold Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)Belgian, 1823–1906

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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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

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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