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After the Ball

1874
Not on view
This painting, also known as Confidence, is one of several by Stevens to treat the theme of consolation. As in his other works from the 1870s, here the anecdotal content of a letter containing distressing news asserts itself in a glimpse of the life of fashionable Parisian women in their elegant interiors. Stevens's subject matter and his meticulous attention to contemporary dress and decor elicited analogies to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art; in fact, one critic called him the Gerard ter Borch of France.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: After the Ball
  • Artist: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, Brussels 1823–1906 Paris)
  • Date: 1874
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 37 3/4 x 27 1/8 in. (95.9 x 68.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Marie L. Russell, 1946
  • Object Number: 46.150.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
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1789
The Japanese Robe, Alfred Stevens Belgian, Oil on canvas
The Japanese Robe
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The Reader, Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer Belgian, Etching on wove paper
The Reader
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