Oil on wood, Marine rougeoyante au clair de lune by Alfred STEVENS
Oil on wood, Marine rougeoyante au clair de lune by Alfred STEVENS
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Alfred Stevens 1823-1906
is a Belgian painter
as famous in France as in his homeland.
The son of a collector of the great masters
masters (Géricault and Delacroix), it was only natural that Alfred Stevens
studied in Paris in 1844 under Jean-Dominique Ingres.
He became friends with painter Edouard Manet, poet Charles Baudelaire, English painter James Whistler and many others...
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| Dimensions | 39.5 × 47.5 cm |
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In 1855, he was decorated by the King of the Belgians for one of his paintings.
From 1858 onwards, he enjoyed dazzling success.
The whole of society sought to own his works, an ode to femininity.
Painter awarded gold medal at the 1867 Exposition Universelle
Officer of the Legion of Honor, supported by Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, Princess de Metternich and the King of Belgium, his paintings are now in the world's greatest museums.
In 1900, he became the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He later devoted himself to marine paintings.
These intimate, poetic works are similar to those by Eugène Boudin, Jongkind and Sargent.