Alfred Stevens was born in Brussels. He trained in Brussels and Paris, and later worked in both cities. He died in Paris.
Alfred Stevens
1823 - 1906
Paintings by Alfred Stevens
Alfred Stevens found success with his paintings of elegant young women in imaginary situations, posed against highly decorative backgrounds. In 1880 he became ill with a lung condition and was advised to make regular trips to Normandy for his health, where he made a series of small paintings of t...
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A young woman sits side-on to us. She wears a relaxed but delicate and costly gown, her hair casually caught back in a soft chignon. She looks down, apparently calmly, at a gleaming ceramic statuette of a snarling tiger, poised to pounce. Its expression and stylised pose are reminiscent of mytho...
On display elsewhere