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The Japanese Robe

ca. 1872
Not on view

The Belgian artist Alfred Stevens is believed to have painted this image of an auburn-haired woman standing before a mirror around 1872. The same model has been identified elsewhere as his sister-in-law. She wears a blue floral kimono and holds a Japanese uchiwa flat fan. The scene stems from the artist’s fascination with both Japanese art and design and Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting, in which the motif of a solitary woman gazing into a mirror proliferated. The work was commissioned by the Met’s early patron Catharine Lorillard Wolfe after another version of the composition (1872, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Japanese Robe
  • Artist: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, Brussels 1823–1906 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1872
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 36 1/2 x 25 1/8 in. (92.7 x 63.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
  • Object Number: 87.15.56
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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