The Painter and His Model. Alfred Stevens
Stevens, a native of Brussels, spent much of his career in Paris where he was regarded as one of the most important recorders of the bourgeois and aristocratic levels of la vie moderne. In this early work, a young woman leans over the shoulder of an artist, presumably Stevens himself, who is regarding his unfinished canvas on the easel. Hanging in the background of the studio is a Flemish tapestry showing an Adoration scene.
1855
oil on fabric
Height: 92.4 cm (36.4 in). Width: 77.3 cm (30.4 in). ; Framed Height: 122.56 cm (48.3 in). Width: 104.46 cm (41.1 in). Depth: 13.97 cm (5.5 in).
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 37.322
Place of creation Reichenau, Germany (?)
Object history
M. A. Polovtsoff Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, December 2-4, 1908
1908: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history
Alfred Stevens. The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal. 1977-1978.
Salute to Belgium, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1980 Commons-logo.svg
In the Studio. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 1981. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004.
Alfred Stevens 1823-1906. Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, AJ Amsterdam. 2009-2010.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1908
Inscriptions "Alfred Stevens 55," signed lower right
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