La Neige
La Neige
Artist
Alfred Stevens
Belgian, 1823-1906
Datemid 1880s
Dimensions24 × 19 1/2 in. (61 × 49.5 cm)
Mediumoil on panel
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. James G. Ravin
Object number
2017.42
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33
Descriptive Catalogue of the Art Gallery of the James Prendergast Library Association, Jamestown, 1906, no. 19 (as Winter).
Katherine E. Manthorne, The Mirror Up to Nature: A Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Collection of The James Prendergast Library Association, Jamestown, New York, 1982, p. 47 (as Winter).
Label TextSpending 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.
about 1785 (Frame about 1820)
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