Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?)

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1867

Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Alfred Stevens
Title: Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?)
Place: Belgium (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1862–1872
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Alfred Stevens
Dimensions: 55.5 × 43.2 cm (21 7/8 × 17 in.); Framed: 68 × 56.5 × 7 cm (26 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1933.1178
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Hans Vollmer, “Stevens, Alfred,” in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 32 (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1938), p. 25.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 441.
Mary Mathews Gedo, Monet and his Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist’s Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), p. 44 (ill.).

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l’œuvre d’Alfred Stevens, February 6–27, 1900, cat. 127.
Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, April 1945, no cat.

Possibly Émile Monteaux, Paris [lent to Paris 1900]. Henry Le Rey et Fils, Paris [according to a red wax stamp on the verso of the painting]. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1911; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, June 23, 1911 [according to the bill of sale, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

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