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ALFRED STEVENS (BELGIAN, 1823-1906)
Ophélie (Ophelia)
signed and dated 'A Stevens./ 87.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
79 x 47½ in. (200.6 x 120.6 cm.)
Provenance
Prosper Crabbe (acquired from the artist through Galerie Georges Petit, 1887) posthumous sale; Paris, 12 June 1890, lot 20.
Baronne du Mesnil sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-16 April 1910, lot 10.
Manuello collection.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, 14-15 June 1927, lot 263.
Anonymous sale; Versailles, 5 December 1971, lot 50.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 June 1975, lot 153.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 March 1983.
with Julian Hartnoll, London.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, prior to 1997.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.Literature
The Artist's account book, 1887, no. 603.
L. Mabilleau, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1890, Tome 1, p. 486.
P. Mantz, Le Temps, Paris, 1890.
L'Européenne illustrée, 8 June 1890.
C. Lemonnier, 1906, illustrated pl. XXXVII.Exhibited
(Possibly) Paris, Salon du Champ de Mars, 1890, no. 845, as Ophélie, vortre regard me trouble.
Charleroi, Palais de Beaux Arts, Rétrospective Alfred Stevens 11 January - 16 February 1975, no. 48.Special notice
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