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Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens, Boats at Sunset — 19th Century Belgian Marine, Oil

c. 1880

$8,613.31
£6,250VAT Included
€7,417.86
CA$11,917.99
A$11,955.51
CHF 6,981.88
MX$145,561.80
NOK 80,171.76
SEK 82,564.46
DKK 55,446.76

About the Item

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906), Boats at Sunset, oil on panel, signed lower left — a late nineteenth-century marine from a private French collection. The panel is worked in a low, horizontal register: a band of shipping silhouetted against a sky flushed with the last of the light, the sea below carrying the colour back in broken horizontal strokes. Stevens builds the sky in thin, fluid layers over the warm ground of the panel, letting the support glow through the paint, and reserves his heavier touch for the boats and the broken water in the foreground. The effect is atmospheric rather than descriptive — a study of light and weather in which the vessels are incident rather than subject. It is a small picture that reads at distance, and one of the qualities that makes his marines so sought after is exactly this economy: very little paint, doing a great deal of work. Stevens trained at the Académie royale in Brussels and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and by the 1860s was among the most fashionable painters in the city, celebrated for his elegant Parisiennes in richly appointed interiors and collected in depth by the great American collectors of the period — Walters, Havemeyer, Vanderbilt. His circle was the heart of progressive Paris: Manet was a close friend, Degas godfather to his daughter, Delacroix a witness at his wedding. Diagnosed with chronic bronchitis in 1880, he was advised to seek sea air and spent some fifteen successive summers on the Normandy coast. The marines that resulted, painted increasingly for their own sake rather than as settings for figures, are now regarded as the most modern and freely handled work of his career, and were the focus of the major retrospective mounted in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2009. His work is held in the Musée d'Orsay, the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Signed lower left. The panel measures 13 x 16 inches excluding the frame, measuring 20.5 x 23.5 inches framed. It's presented in a fine gilt period frame. The work is in excellent condition
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    c. 1880
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)Width: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Marlow, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU415318539862

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