La Neige
Artist: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906)
Date: mid 1880s
Dimensions:
24 × 19 1/2 in. (61 × 49.5 cm)
Medium: oil on panel
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James G. Ravin
Object number: 2017.42
Label Text:Spending the majority of his professional life in Paris, Belgian artist Alfred Stevens was familiar with his younger contemporaries, the Impressionists. These artists included Édouard Manet, Stevens’ closest artist acquaintance, as well as Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot. Stevens enjoyed popularity with both European and American collectors. This painting was in the collection of the James Prendergast Library, Jamestown, New York from 1891 to 2017.
A chronicler of the Belle Époque, Stevens predominantly was a painter of fashionable women, usually a single figure, within elegantly furnished interior spaces, as is the case with La Neige (The Snow). Clad in a chic, brown velvet dress, her plumed hat positioned on the table beside her, the woman is silhouetted before the gold background and floral motif of a Chinese-style lacquer folded screen. Her attention is occupied by the falling snow and the birds on the barren tree visible outside the window. The image is a reverie about reverie.
A chronicler of the Belle Époque, Stevens predominantly was a painter of fashionable women, usually a single figure, within elegantly furnished interior spaces, as is the case with La Neige (The Snow). Clad in a chic, brown velvet dress, her plumed hat positioned on the table beside her, the woman is silhouetted before the gold background and floral motif of a Chinese-style lacquer folded screen. Her attention is occupied by the falling snow and the birds on the barren tree visible outside the window. The image is a reverie about reverie.
DescriptionClad in a chic, brown velvet wardrobe, her plumed hat positioned on the table by her side, the woman is silhouetted before the gold background and floral motif seen on an Oriental folded screen. Her attention is occupied by the falling snow and birds visible out the window of the room. The image is a reverie of reverie.
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